1And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year since the children of Israel came out from Egypt, in the first month, and he said to him: 2“The children of Israel shall perform Passover in its time. 3On the fourteenth in this month at sunset they shall perform it in its time; they shall perform it according to all its orders and according to all its judgments.” 4And Moshe said to the children of Israel that they shall observe Passover. 5And they observed Passover on the fourteenth of the first month, at sunset, in the wilderness of Sinai, according to what LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe; so the children of Israel did. 6And men who were defiled by the persons of men were not able to observe Passover in that day, and they approached before Moshe and before Ahron on that day. 7And they were saying to those men, “We are defiled by the person of a man; why are we forbidden and we do not bring the offering of LORD JEHOVAH in its time among the children of Israel?” 8And Moshe said to them, “Stand on your place and I shall make heard what LORD JEHOVAH commands concerning you.”

9And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 10“Speak with the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man shall be defiled by a person or on a distant road or by your posterity, he shall keep Passover to LORD JEHOVAH. 11In the fourteenth in the second month at sunset they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitters. 12And not they shall leave any of it for the morning, and they shall not break a bone in it; they shall do it according to every commandment of Passover. 13And a man that is pure and was not in the way and did not observe Passover in its time, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he did not bring the offering of LORD JEHOVAH in its time; that man shall bear sin. 14And when one who is converted to me will settle with you and he will observe Passover to LORD JEHOVAH according to the commandment of Passover and according to its judgments, thus he shall keep it; one law shall be for you and for the one who has turned to me and for the settler of the land.”

15And in the day when the Tabernacle was raised up, a cloud covered the Time Tabernacle and at the door of the Testimony, and in the evening there was on the Tabernacle as the appearance of fire until the morning. 16So it was constantly, and a cloud was covering it by day and the appearance of fire in the night. 17And when the cloud was ascending from the Tabernacle, after this the children of Israel were picking up and in the place where the cloud abode on it, there the children of Israel pitched camp. 18By the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH the children of Israel picked up and by the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH all of them were pitching camp; they stayed for the days when the cloud abode on the Tabernacle. 19And when the cloud continued on the Tabernacle for many days, Israel kept the charge of LORD JEHOVAH and did not pick up. 20And there was time when the cloud was fewer days on the Tabernacle; by the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH they stayed and by the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH they picked up. 21And there was a time when the cloud was on the Tabernacle from evening and unto the morning, and the cloud went up at dawn, and they picked up; whether the cloud went up day or night, they also were picking up. 22Or days or months or time to time, however long the cloud was remaining on the Tabernacle, so the children of Israel remained and they did not pick up, and whenever the cloud went up, they picked up. 23By the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH they remained and by the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH they picked up, and they kept the charge of LORD JEHOVAH according to the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH by the agency of Moshe.