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- And the LORD spoke 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:
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- "Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
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- In the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, ye shall keep it in its appointed season;
according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it."
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- And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
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- And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai;
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
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- But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so 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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- And those men said unto him: "We are unclean by the dead body of a man;
wherefore are we to be kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"
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- And Moses said unto them: "Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."
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- And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
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- "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations 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;
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- in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it;
they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
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- they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof;
according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
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- But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people;
because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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- And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD: according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do;
ye shall have one statute, both for the stranger, and for him that is born in the land."
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- And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony;
and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
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- So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
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- And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed;
and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.
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- At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.
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- And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
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- And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;
according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
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- And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning;
and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed;
or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
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- Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not;
but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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- At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, 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.
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