1 ¶ The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Let the children of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.

3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time: you shall keep it according to all its statutes, and ordinances.

4 So Moses told 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 wilderness of Sinai: the children of Israel did everything exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses.

6 And there were certain men, who were defiled 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:

7 And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept from offering the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the children of Israel?

8 And Moses said to them, Wait, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey afar off, he shall still keep the passover to the LORD.

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 until the morning, nor break any of it’s bones: they shall keep it according to all the ordinances of the passover.

13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, yet does not keep the passover shall be cut off from among his people: because he did not bring the LORD’s offering at its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

14 And if a foreigner resides among you, and wants to keep the LORD’s passover; he must observe it according to the statutes of the passover, and according to its rules: you shall have one law, for both the foreigner, and for him who was born in the land.

15 ¶ And on the day that the tabernacle was set up the cloud covered the tabernacle, that is, the tent of the testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle having 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 whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel traveled on: and at the place where the cloud stopped, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel moved on, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched camp: and as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle they remained encamped.

19 Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle for many days, the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and did not set out.

20 And sometimes the cloud was only over the tabernacle a few days; but according to the command of the LORD they remained in their camp, and according to the command of the LORD they traveled on.

21 And sometimes the cloud only remained from the evening to the morning, and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they set out: or if it continued for a day and a night when the cloud was taken up, they traveled on.

22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel stayed in camp, and did not set out: but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

23 At the commandment of the LORD they remained with their tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled on: they carried out the LORD’s requirement, as commanded by the LORD through Moses.