1 And YHWH spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, VP
2 “And the sons of Israel shall keep the Passover at its appointed time. VP
3 On the four [and] tenth day of this month, between the evenings, you⁺ shall do it at its appointed time. According to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances you⁺ shall do it.” VP
4 And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, to do the Passover. VP
5 And they did the Passover in the first [month], on the four [and] tenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that YHWH commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did. VP
6 And there were men who were unclean for a [dead] soul of a man, and they were not able to do the Passover on that day. And they drew near before the face of Moses and before the face of Aaron on that day. VP
7 And those men said to him, “We [are] unclean for a [dead] soul of a man; why are we restrained so as not to bring near an offering of YHWH at its appointed time in the midst of the sons of Israel?” VP
8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, and I will hear what YHWH will command for you⁺.” VP
9 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, VP
10 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any man is unclean for a [dead] soul or on a journey far away—for you⁺ or your⁺ generations—and he does the Passover of YHWH, VP
11 in the second month, on the four [and] tenth day, between the evenings, they shall do it; with unleavened [bread] and bitter herbs they shall eat it. VP
12 They shall leave none from it until morning, and a bone in it they shall not break. According to all the statutes of the Passover, they shall do it. VP
13 And the man who is clean, and not on a journey, and ceases to do the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring near the offering of YHWH at its appointed time. That man, he shall bear his sin. VP
14 And if a sojourner sojourns with you⁺, and he does the Passover to YHWH, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he must do; one statute you shall have for you⁺ and for the sojourner and for the native of the land.’” VP
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, to the Tent of the Testimony. And in the evening it was upon the tabernacle, like the appearance of fire, until morning. VP
16 So it was continually: The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. VP
17 And according to the mouth of the lifting up of the cloud from upon the tabernacle, and after that the sons of Israel would journey. And in the place where the cloud dwelt, there the sons of Israel would camp. VP
18 Upon the mouth of YHWH the sons of Israel would journey, and upon the mouth of YHWH they would camp. All the days that the cloud dwelt upon the tabernacle, they camped. VP
19 And when the cloud prolonged upon the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of YHWH, and they would not journey. VP
20 And it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, upon the mouth of YHWH, they would camp. And upon the mouth of YHWH they would journey. VP
21 And it was, when the cloud was from evening until morning, and the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed; or a day and a night, and the cloud was lifted up, then they journeyed. VP
22 Or two days, or a month, or a year, when the cloud prolonged upon the tabernacle, to dwell over it, the sons of Israel camped and they did not journey; and when it was lifted up, they journeyed. VP
23 Upon the mouth of YHWH they camped, and upon the mouth of YHWH they journeyed; they kept the charge of YHWH, upon the mouth of YHWH by the hand of Moses. VP