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"On the fourteenth*day of thismonth, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointedtime; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances."
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They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth*day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD had commandedMoses, so the sons of Israeldid.
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But there were some menwho were unclean because of the deadperson, so that they could not observePassover on that day; so they camebeforeMoses and Aaron on that day.
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Thosemensaid to him, "Though we are unclean because of the deadperson, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointedtimeamong the sons of Israel?"
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"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'Ifanyone of you or of your generationsbecomesunclean because of a dead person, or is on a distantjourney, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD.
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'But the manwho is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cutoff from his people, for he did not present the offering of the LORD at its appointedtime. That man will bear his sin.
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'If an aliensojournsamong you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall haveonestatute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.' "
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Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloudcovered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fireover the tabernacle, untilmorning.
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Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward* the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the placewhere* the cloudsettleddown, there the sons of Israel would camp.
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At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long* as the cloudsettledover the tabernacle, they remainedcamped.
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If sometimes the cloudremained a fewdaysover the tabernacle, according to the command of the LORD they remainedcamped. Then according to the command of the LORD they set out.
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If sometimes the cloudremained from eveninguntilmorning, when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they would move out; or if it remained in the daytime and at night, whenever the cloud was lifted, they would set out.
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Whether it was two daysor a monthor a year that the cloudlingeredover the tabernacle, stayingabove it, the sons of Israelremainedcamped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.
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At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the LORD'Scharge, according to the command of the LORDthroughMoses.