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Chapter 9 |
| 1 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses in the wilderness 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 even, ye shall keep it in his appointed
season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies
thereof, shall ye keep it. |
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4 | And Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, that they should keep the passover. |
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5 | And they kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of
Sinai: according to all that the LORD 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: |
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7 | And those men said unto
him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that
we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel? |
| 8 | And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I
will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. |
| 9 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
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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 the
LORD. |
| 11 |
The fourteenth day of the second month at even 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 forbeareth to keep the passover,
even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought
not the offering of the LORD 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 the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and
according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance,
both for the stranger, and for him that 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 even there was upon the tabernacle as
it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. |
| 16 | So it was
alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
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| 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. |
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18 | At the commandment of the
LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their
tents. |
| 19
| And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many
days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed
not. |
| 20 |
And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the
tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents,
and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. |
| 21 | And
so it was, when the cloud abode from even 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 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 the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the
LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of
the LORD by the hand of Moses. |
