<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1003726">Numbers</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1004096">Chapter 9</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1004069">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1004120">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Preparations and Departure from Sinai</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004097">1</a>. 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,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004098">2</a>. Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004099">3</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004100">4</a>. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004101">5</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004102">6</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004103">7</a>. 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?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004104">8</a>. And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004105">9</a>. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004106">10</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004107">11</a>. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004108">12</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004109">13</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004110">14</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004111">15</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004112">16</a>. So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004113">17</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004114">18</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004115">19</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004116">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004117">21</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004118">22</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1004119">23</a>. 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.</li>
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