1 Yehovah spoke to Moses in the backcountry of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time—according to all its edicts, and according to all its judgments, you shall keep it.”
4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the backcountry of Sinai. According to all that Yehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6 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. 7 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 Yehovah at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”
8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yehovah will command concerning you.”
9 Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “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 Yehovah. 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the edict of the Passover they shall keep it. 13 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 Yehovah at its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.
14 “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yehovah; according to the edict of the Passover, and according to its judgment, so shall he do. You shall have one edict, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”
15 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. 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 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. 18 At the commandment of Yehovah, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yehovah they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yehovah’s command, and didn’t travel. 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yehovah they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yehovah they traveled. 21 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. 22 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. 23 At the commandment of Yehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Yehovah they traveled. They kept Yehovah’s command, at the commandment of Yehovah by Moses.