¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month¹ of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Let the children of Israel also keep² the passover at his appointed³ season.

In the fourteenth⁴ day of this month, at even⁵, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites⁶ of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover⁷.

And they kept⁸ the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according⁹ to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

And there were certain men, who were defiled¹⁰ by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came¹¹ before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

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 offer¹² an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

And Moses said unto them, Stand¹³ still, and I will¹⁴ hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

¶ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean¹⁵ by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep¹⁶ the passover unto the LORD.

The fourteenth¹⁷ day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it¹⁸ with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

They shall leave¹⁹ none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone²⁰ of it: according²¹ to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth²² to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because²³ he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin²⁴.

²⁵And 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.

¶ And on the day²⁶ that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud²⁷ covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even²⁸ there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

²⁹So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

And when the cloud³⁰ was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the³¹ place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the³² commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as³³ the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

And when the cloud tarried long³⁴ upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

¶ And so it was, when the cloud was a few³⁵ days upon the tabernacle; according to³⁶ the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

And so it was, when the cloud abode³⁷ 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.

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 abode³⁸ in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept³⁹ the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.