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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Numbers 9
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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.
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Numbers 9 Study & Commentary
Israel keeps the Passover in the wilderness. Provision is made for those who were unclean to keep it a month later. The movement of the camp is dictated entirely by the Cloud of Glory: when it moved, they moved; when it stayed, they stayed.
1. Grace for the Impure: The "Second Passover" shows God’s heart to include those who sincerely want to worship but were hindered.
2. Total Dependence: Israel had no GPS or map; they had to look up at the Cloud every morning. We must look to God for daily direction.
3. Patient Obedience: Whether the cloud stayed a day or a year, the people waited on the LORD’s timing.
2. Total Dependence: Israel had no GPS or map; they had to look up at the Cloud every morning. We must look to God for daily direction.
3. Patient Obedience: Whether the cloud stayed a day or a year, the people waited on the LORD’s timing.
