The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Numbers 09
1 Yahweh 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 in its appointed season.
3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at
evening, you shall keep it in its appointed
season. You shall keep it according to all
its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
4 Moses told the children of Israel that
they should keep the Passover.
5 They kept the Passover in the first
month, on the fourteenth day ofthe month
at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded
Moses, so the children of Israel did.
6 There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man,
so that they could not keep the Passover on
that day, and they came before Moses and
Aaron on that day.
7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man.
Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed
season among the children of Israel?”
8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I
may hear what Yahweh will command
concerning you.”
9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any
man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on
a journey far away, he shall still keep the
Passover to Yahweh.
11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it;
they shall eat it with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it until the
morning, nor break a bone ofit. According
to all the statute of the Passover they shall
keep it.
13 Butthe man who is clean, and is not on
a journey, and fails to keep the Passover,
that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahwehinits appointed season,that manshall
bear his sin.
14 “ ‘If a foreigner lives among you and
desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh,
then he shall do so according to the statute
of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for
the foreigner and for him who is born in
the land.’ ”
15 On the day that the tabernacle was
raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At
evening it was over the tabernacle, as it
were the appearance of fire, until morning.
16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
17 Whenever the cloud was taken up
from over the Tent, then after that the
children ofIsraeltraveled; and in the place
where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
18 At the commandment of Yahweh, the
children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As
long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of
Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and didn’t
travel.
20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days
on the tabernacle; then according to the
commandment of Yahweh they remained
encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
21 Sometimes the cloud was from
evening until morning; and when the
cloud was taken up in the morning, they
traveled; or by day and by night, when the
cloud was taken up, they traveled.
22 Whether it was two days, or a month,
or a year that the cloud stayed on the
tabernacle, remaining on it, the children
of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t
travel; but when it was taken up, they
traveled.
23 At the commandment of Yahweh they
encamped, and at the commandment of
Yahwehthey traveled. They kept Yahweh’s
command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.