¹ And Jehovah spoke to^▵ Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month in the second year after they were come·​·out of the land of Egypt, saying,

² Let the sons of Israel then make the Passover at its appointed·​·time.

³ In the fourteenth day in this month, between the two·​·evenings^*, you shall make it in its appointed·​·time; according·​·to all its statutes, and according·​·to all its judgments, you shall make it.

⁴ And Moses spoke to^▵ the sons of Israel, that they should make the Passover.

⁵ And they did the Passover on^◦ the fourteenth day on^◦ the first of^◦ the month between the two·​·evenings in the wilderness of Sinai; according·​·to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

⁶ And there were certain men^◦, who became unclean by the soul of man^*, and they were· not ·able to make the Passover on^◦ that^◦ day; and they came·​·near before Moses and before Aaron on^◦ that^◦ day:

⁷ and those^◦ men^◦ said to^▵ him, We^◦ are unclean because of^◦ the soul of man; why are we diminished, that we may not^▵ offer an offering of Jehovah in its appointed·​·time in the midst of the sons of Israel?

⁸ And Moses said to^▵ them, Stand, and I will hear what Jehovah will command as·​·to you.

⁹ And Jehovah spoke to^▵ Moses, saying,

¹⁰ Speak to^▵ the sons of Israel, saying, If a man^◦, any man^◦ of^◦ you or of^◦ your generations, when^◦ he be unclean as·​·to the soul, or be on^◦ the way far·​·off, yet he shall make the Passover to Jehovah.

¹¹ In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the two·​·evenings they shall make it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹² They shall leave none^▵ of it to^◦ the morning, nor break a bone of it; according·​·to all the statutes of the Passover they shall make it.

¹³ But the man^◦, he^◦ who is clean, and is not on^◦ the way^*, and forbears to do the Passover, then that^◦ soul shall be cut·​·off from his people, for he offered not the offering of Jehovah in its appointed·​·time; that^◦ man^◦ shall bear his sin.

¹⁴ And when^◦ a sojourner shall sojourn with^◦ you, then he will make the Passover to Jehovah; according·​·to the statute of the Passover, and according·​·to its judgment, so shall he do; there shall be one statute for you, and for the sojourner, and for the native of the land.

¹⁵ And on^◦ the day that the Habitation was raised·​·up the cloud covered the Habitation of^◦ the Tabernacle of the testimony; and in the evening there was upon the Habitation as·​·it·​·were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

¹⁶ So it was continually; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

¹⁷ And when^* the cloud was made to go·​·up from on the Tabernacle, then after·​·that the sons of Israel journeyed; and in the place where^▵ the cloud inhabited, there the sons of Israel encamped.

¹⁸ By^◦ the mouth of Jehovah the sons of Israel journeyed, and by^◦ the mouth of Jehovah they encamped; all the days that the cloud abided^◦ upon the Habitation^* they encamped.

¹⁹ And when the cloud was·​·long upon the Habitation many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.

²⁰ And it·​·was that the cloud was a number of days on the Habitation; by^◦ the mouth of Jehovah they encamped, and by^◦ the mouth of Jehovah they journeyed.

²¹ And it·​·was, that the cloud was there from evening until morning, and the cloud was made to go·​·up in the morning, and they journeyed; either by·​·day or^◦ by night, and the cloud was made to go·​·up, and they journeyed.

²² Or whether two·​·days, or a month, or many days, when the cloud was·​·long on the Habitation, abiding^◦ thereon, the sons of Israel encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was made to go·​·up, they journeyed.

²³ By^◦ the mouth of Jehovah they encamped, and by^◦ the mouth of Jehovah they journeyed; they kept the charge of Jehovah, by^◦ the mouth of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.

¹ David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

² David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the Name of Yahweh of Armies who sits [above] the cherubim.

³ They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

⁴ They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

⁵ David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

⁶ When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

⁷ The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

⁸ David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.

⁹ David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?"

¹⁰ So David would not move the ark of Yahweh to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

¹¹ The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his house.

¹² It was told king David, saying, "Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God." David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.

¹³ It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

¹⁴ David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

¹⁵ So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

¹⁶ It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷ They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

¹⁸ When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

¹⁹ He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.