Numbers 9

The Passover Celebrated

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, d in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. 3 e On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it." 4 So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 5 And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did. 6 And there were certain men who were f unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and g they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7 And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord's h offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?" 8 And Moses said to them, "Wait, that i I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you."

9 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord. 11 j In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. k They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 l They shall leave none of it until the morning, m nor break any of its bones; n according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it. 13 But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, o that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord's p offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. q You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

15 r On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And s at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. 16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day 1 and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And whenever the cloud t lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped. 18 At the command of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the Lord they camped. u As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. 19 Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel v kept the charge of the Lord and did not set out. 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they remained in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they set out. 21 And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out. 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel w remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out. 23 At the command of the Lord they camped, and at the command of the Lord they set out. v They kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses.

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 1:1
    The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:5
    In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 5:2
    Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.
    Numbers 19:11
    Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
    Numbers 19:16
    Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
    John 18:28
    Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 27:2
    And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying.
    Exodus 18:15
    And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
    Exodus 18:19
    Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God.
    Exodus 18:26
    And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 9:13
    But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord 's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 27:5
    Moses brought their case before the Lord.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 12:6
    And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
    2 Chronicles 30:2 - 15
    For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month -
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 12:8
    They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
    Deuteronomy 16:3
    You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction - for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste - that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 12:10
    And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 12:46
    It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.
    John 19:36
    For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 12:43
    And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.
    Exodus 12:49
    There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 12:15
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
    Genesis 17:14
    Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
  13. Cross References
    Numbers 9:7
    And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord 's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 12:48 - 49
    If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 40:17
    In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
    Exodus 40:34
    Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 13:21
    And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 10:11
    In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
    Numbers 10:33 - 34
    So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
    Exodus 40:36
    Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out.
  18. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 10:1
    For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 1:53
    But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.
  20. Cross References
    Exodus 40:36 - 37
    Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out.
  21. Cross References
    Numbers 9:19
    Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the Lord and did not set out.
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