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, |
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2: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed
season. |
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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. |
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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? |
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8: And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD
will command concerning you. |
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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. |
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11: The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it,
and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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16: So it was always: 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |