Jump to:

001

Numbers

Chapter 9

1 And Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses in the desert of Sinai,
in the first month of the second year
after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2
Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover
at his appointed season.

3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening,
you shall keep it in his appointed season.

According to all the rites of it,
and according to all the ceremonies thereof,
shall you keep it.

4 And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel,
that they should keep the Passover.

5 And they kept the Passover
on the fourteenth day of the first month
at evening in the desert of Sinai.

According to all who Jehovah/God commanded Moses,
so did the children of Israel.

6 And there were certain men,
who were defiled by the dead body of a man,
that they could not keep the Passover on that day.

And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

7 And those men said unto him,
We are defiled by the dead body of a man.

Why are we kept back,
that we may not offer an offering of Jehovah/God
in His appointed season among the children of Israel?

8 And Moses said unto them,
Stand still, and I will hear what Jehovah/God
will command concerning you.

9 And Jehovah/God spoke unto Moses, saying, 10
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If any man of you or of your posterity
shall be unclean by reason of a dead body,
or be in a journey afar off,
yet he shall keep the Passover unto Jehovah/God.

11 The fourteenth day of the second month
at evening they shall keep it,
and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning,
nor break any bone of it.

According to all the ordinances of the Passover
they shall keep it.

13 But the man that is clean,
and is not in a journey,
and forbear to keep the Passover,
even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Because he brought not the offering of Jehovah/God
in His appointed season,
that man shall bear his sin.

14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you,
and will keep the Passover unto Jehovah/God;
according to the ordinance of the Passover,
and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do.

You shall have one ordinance,
both for the stranger,
and for him who was born in the land.

15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up
the cloud covered the tabernacle,
namely, the tent of the testimony.

And at evening there was upon the tabernacle
as it were the appearance of fire,
until the morning.

16 So it was always.

The cloud covered it by day,
and the appearance of fire by night.

17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle,
then after that the children of Israel journeyed.

And in the place where the cloud abode,
there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

18 At the commandment of Jehovah/God
the children of Israel journeyed,
and at the commandment of Jehovah/God they pitched.

As long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle
they rested in their tents.

19 And when the cloud delayed/tarried long
upon the tabernacle many days,
then the children of Israel
kept the charge of Jehovah/God,
and journeyed not.

20 And so it was,
when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;
according to the commandment of Jehovah/God
they abode in their tents,
and according to the commandment of Jehovah/God
they journeyed.

21 And so it was, when the cloud abode
from evening unto the morning,
and that the cloud was taken up in the morning,
then they journeyed.

Whether it was by day or by night
that the cloud was taken up,
they journeyed.

22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year,
that the cloud delayed/tarried upon the tabernacle,
remaining thereon,
the children of Israel abode in their tents,
and journeyed not.

But when it was taken up, they journeyed.

23 At the commandment of Jehovah/God
they rested in the tents,
and at the commandment of Jehovah/God
they journeyed.

They kept the charge of Jehovah/God,
at the commandment of Jehovah/God
by the hand of Moses.