The Second Passover
1 Now 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 athe Passover at its appointed btime.
3 On the fourteenth day of this month,1 at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its3 rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”
4 So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
5 And athey kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
6 Now there were certain men who were adefiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; band they came before Moses and Aaron that day.
7 And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”
8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that aI may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your1 posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover.
11 On athe fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall beat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 aThey shall leave none of it until morning, bnor break one of its bones. cAccording to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person ashall be cut off from among his people, because he bdid not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall cbear his sin.
14 ‘And if a stranger1 dwells among you, and would keep the Lord’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; ayou shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”
The Cloud and the Fire
15 Now aon the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud bcovered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; cfrom evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.
16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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