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          DASV: Numbers 9    

1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
in the first month of the second year after they came out
of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 "The Israelites are to keep the Passover at the appointed time.
3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you
are to keep it, at its appointed time according to all its
statutes and regulations you are to keep it."
4 So Moses told the Israelites to keep the Passover.
5 They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month,
at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did
everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

6 But there were certain people who were unclean having had
contact with a dead body of a man, so they could not keep
the Passover on that day. So they came before Moses
and Aaron that day,
7 and said to him, "We are unclean having had contact with
a dead body of a man; why are we prevented from offering
the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?"
8 Moses responded to them, "Wait here until I hear what
the LORD commands concerning you."
9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10 "Tell the Israelites, 'If any of you or your descendants
are unclean having had contact with a dead body, or have gone
on a distant journey, they may still keep the Passover to the LORD.
11 In the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight they
must keep it; they will eat the Passover lamb with
unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 They must not leave any of it until morning or break any
of its bones. They must keep it following every statute
of the Passover.
13 But the person who is clean and has not been on a journey
and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut
off from his people because he has not offered the LORD's
offering at its appointed time. That person will bear the
consequences of his sin.
14 If a foreigner living among you wants to keep the Passover
to the LORD, he must do so in accordance with the statute
and regulations of the Passover. You are to have the same
statute for both the foreigner and for the one who was born
in the land.'"

15 On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered
the Tent of the Testimony, and from evening until morning
it was over the tabernacle looking like fire.
16 This is how it always was: the cloud covered it, and at night
it had the appearance of fire.
17 Whenever the cloud lifted off the Tent, then the Israelites
would set out and in the place where the cloud settled,
there the Israelites set up camp.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the Israelites began
their journey, and at the commandment of the LORD they
set up camp. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle
they would remain camped.
19 Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days,
the Israelites followed the LORD's order and did not set
out on a journey.
20 Sometimes the cloud was only a few days over the tabernacle.
So according to the LORD's command they remained camped
and according to the LORD's command they set out.
21 Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning;
and when the cloud was taken up the next morning, they continued on.
Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was lifted, they set out.
22 Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the
cloud remained over the tabernacle, resting on it, the
Israelites remained camped and did not set out; but when
it lifted then they set out.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they set up camp, and at
the commandment of the LORD they traveled on. They kept the
charge of the LORD at the commandment of the LORD through Moses.

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