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And Jehovah 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,
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Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
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In the fourteenth day of this month , at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
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And Moses spake unto the children of Israel , that they should keep the passover .
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And they kept the passover in the first [month ], on the fourteenth day of the month , at even, in the wilderness of Sinai : according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses , so did the children of Israel .
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And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day : and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day :
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and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel ?
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And Moses said unto them, Stay ye, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel , saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah .
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In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
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they shall leave none of it unto the morning , nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
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But the man that is clean , and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover , that soul shall be cut off from his people ; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah ; according to the statute of the passover , and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner , and for him that is born in the land .
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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle , even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire , until morning .
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So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night .
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And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent , then after that the children of Israel journeyed : and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped .
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At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed , and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped : as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped .
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And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days , then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah , and journeyed not.
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And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped , and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed .
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And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning ; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning , they journeyed : or [if it continued] by day and by night , when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed .
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Whether it were two days , or a month , or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped , and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed .
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At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped , and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed : they kept the charge of Jehovah , at the commandment of Jehovah by Moses .