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Chapter
9

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And the LORD 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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Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

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In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed
season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies
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 on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in
the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did
the children of Israel.

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And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, 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 defiled by the dead body of a man:
wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in
his appointed season among the children of Israel?

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And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will
command concerning you.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your
posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar
off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

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The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it:
according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

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But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover,
even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought
not the offering of the LORD in his 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 the
LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner
thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger,
and for him that was born in the land.

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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the
tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the
tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

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So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by
night.

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And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the
children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the
children of Israel pitched their tents.

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At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment
of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they
rested in their tents.

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And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the
children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

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And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to
the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the
commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

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And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the
cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day
or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

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Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon
the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents,
and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

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At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment
of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the
commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.