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Yahweh 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,
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"Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
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On the fourteenth day of this month , at evening , you shall keep it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes , and according to all its ordinances , you shall keep it."
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Moses spoke to the children of Israel , that they should keep the Passover .
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They kept the Passover in the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month , at evening , in the wilderness of Sinai . According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses , so the children of Israel did.
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There were certain men, who were unclean because 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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Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel ?"
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Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you."
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Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying,
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"Say to the children of Israel , 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh .
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In the second month , on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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They shall leave none of it until the morning , nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
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But the man who is clean , and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover , that soul shall be cut off from his people . Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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"'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh ; according to the statute of the Passover , and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner , and for him who is born in the land .'"
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On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle , even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire , until morning .
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So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night .
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Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent , then after that the children of Israel traveled ; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped .
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At the commandment of Yahweh , the children of Israel traveled , and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped . As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped .
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When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days , then the children of Israel kept Yahweh 's command, and didn't travel .
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Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped , and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled .
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Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning ; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning , they traveled : or by day and by night , when the cloud was taken up, they traveled .
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Whether it was two days , or a month , or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped , and didn't travel ; but when it was taken up, they traveled .
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At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped , and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled . They kept Yahweh 's command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses .