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¹And YHWH had spoken to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year of their exodus from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, ²“And the children of Israel shall do the Passover at its appointed time. ³On the fourteenth day in this month ‘between the two evenings’ you shall do it at its appointed time. You shall do it according to all of its law and according to all of its judgments.”

⁴And Moses had spoken to the children of Israel to do the Passover, ⁵and they had done the Passover in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month “between the two evenings” in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that YHWH had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel had done.

⁶And there had been people who were impure by a human being and so had not been able to do the Passover on that day, and they had come forward in front of Moses and in front of Aaron on that day, ⁷and those people had said to him, “We’re impure by a human being. Why should we be excluded so as not to make YHWH’s offering at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

⁸And Moses had said, “Stay, and let me hear what YHWH will command about you.”

⁹And YHWH had spoken to Moses, saying, ¹⁰“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Any man who will be impure by a person or on a faraway journey—among you or through your generations—and will do the Passover for YHWH, ¹¹they shall do it in the second month on the fourteenth day ‘between the two evenings.’ They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ¹²They shall not leave any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it. They shall do it according to all of the law of the Passover. ¹³But a man who is pure and has not been on a journey and has failed to do the Passover: that person will be cut off from his people, because he did not make YHWH’s offering at its appointed time. That man shall bear his sin. ¹⁴And if an alien will reside with you and will do the Passover for YHWH: according to the law of the Passover and according to its required manner, so he shall do it. You shall have one law, for the alien and for the citizen of the land.”

¹⁵And on the day that the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the Tabernacle of the tent of the Testimony, and in the evening it would be over the Tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. ¹⁶So it would be always: the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire at night. ¹⁷And according to when the cloud was lifted from over the tent, after that the children of Israel would travel. And in a place where the cloud would tent, the children of Israel would camp there. ¹⁸By YHWH’s word the children of Israel would travel, and by YHWH’s word they would camp. All the days that the cloud would tent over the Tabernacle they would camp. ¹⁹And when the cloud would extend many days over the Tabernacle, then the children of Israel kept YHWH’s charge and would not travel. ²⁰And there were times that the cloud would be over the Tabernacle for a number of days: by YHWH’s word they would camp, and by YHWH’s word they would travel. ²¹And there were times that the cloud would be there from evening until morning, and the cloud was lifted in the morning, and then they would travel; or for a day and a night, and the cloud was lifted, and then they traveled. ²²Whether two days or a month or a year, when the cloud would extend long over the Tabernacle, to tent over it, the children of Israel would camp and would not travel, and when it was lifted they would travel. ²³By YHWH’s word they would camp, and by YHWH’s word they would travel. They kept YHWH’s charge, by YHWH’s word through Moses’ hand.¹⁴¹