Numbers 9:4   (Read all of Numbers 9)

So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,

Numbers 9:5   (Read all of Numbers 9)

and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 9:6   (Read all of Numbers 9)

But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

Numbers 9:7   (Read all of Numbers 9)

and said to Moses, "We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord's offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?"

Numbers 9:9   (Read all of Numbers 9)

Then the Lord said to Moses,

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"Tell the Israelites: 'When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the Lord's Passover,

Numbers 9:11   (Read all of Numbers 9)

but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Numbers 9:13   (Read all of Numbers 9)

But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the Lord's offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

Numbers 9:14   (Read all of Numbers 9)

" 'A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the Lord's Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.' "

Numbers 9:15   (Read all of Numbers 9)

On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.

Numbers 9:17   (Read all of Numbers 9)

Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.

Numbers 9:18   (Read all of Numbers 9)

At the Lord's command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

Numbers 9:19   (Read all of Numbers 9)

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out.

Numbers 9:20   (Read all of Numbers 9)

Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the Lord's command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out.

Numbers 9:21   (Read all of Numbers 9)

Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out.

Numbers 9:22   (Read all of Numbers 9)

Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.

Numbers 9:23   (Read all of Numbers 9)

At the Lord's command they encamped, and at the Lord's command they set out. They obeyed the Lord's order, in accordance with his command through Moses.

Numbers 10:1   (Read all of Numbers 10)

The Lord said to Moses:

Numbers 10:2   (Read all of Numbers 10)

"Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.

Numbers 10:3   (Read all of Numbers 10)

When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Numbers 10:4   (Read all of Numbers 10)

If only one is sounded, the leaders-the heads of the clans of Israel-are to assemble before you.

Numbers 10:5   (Read all of Numbers 10)

When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.

Numbers 10:6   (Read all of Numbers 10)

At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out.

Numbers 10:7   (Read all of Numbers 10)

To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.