1 And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,2 Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.4 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.5 So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.6 And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?8 And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.9 And the Lord said to Moses,10 Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;12 Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.13 But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.14 And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.16 And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.18 At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go away from that place.19 When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on.20 Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on.21 And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward.22 Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.23 At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.

1 Locutus est Dominus ad Moysen in deserto Sinai anno secundo, postquam egressi sunt de terra gypti, mense primo, dicens : 2 Faciant filii Isral Phase in tempore suo, 3 quartadecima die mensis hujus ad vesperam, juxta omnes cremonias et justificationes ejus. 4 Prcepitque Moyses filiis Isral ut facerent Phase. 5 Qui fecerunt tempore suo, quartadecima die mensis ad vesperam, in monte Sinai. Juxta omnia qu mandaverat Dominus Moysi, fecerunt filii Isral. 6 Ecce autem quidam immundi super anima hominis, qui non poterant facere Phase in die illo, accedentes ad Moysen et Aaron, 7 dixerunt eis : Immundi sumus super anima hominis : quare fraudamur ut non valeamus oblationem offerre Domino in tempore suo inter filios Isral ? 8 Quibus respondit Moyses : State ut consulam quid prcipiat Dominus de vobis. 9 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : 10 Loquere filiis Isral : Homo, qui fuerit immundus super anima, sive in via procul in gente vestra, faciat Phase Domino 11 in mense secundo, quartadecima die mensis ad vesperam. Cum azymis et lactucis agrestibus comedent illud : 12 non relinquent ex eo quippiam usque mane, et os ejus non confringent : omnem ritum Phase observabunt. 13 Si quis autem et mundus est, et in itinere non fuit, et tamen non fecit Phase, exterminabitur anima illa de populis suis, quia sacrificium Domino non obtulit tempore suo : peccatum suum ipse portabit. 14 Peregrinus quoque et advena si fuerint apud vos, facient Phase Domino juxta cremonias et justificationes ejus. Prceptum idem erit apud vos tam adven quam indigen.15 Igitur die qua erectum est tabernaculum, operuit illud nubes. A vespere autem super tentorium erat quasi species ignis usque mane. 16 Sic fiebat jugiter : per diem operiebat illud nubes, et per noctem quasi species ignis. 17 Cumque ablata fuisset nubes, qu tabernaculum protegebat, tunc proficiscebantur filii Isral : et in loco ubi stetisset nubes, ibi castrametabantur. 18 Ad imperium Domini proficiscebantur, et ad imperium illius figebant tabernaculum. Cunctis diebus quibus stabat nubes super tabernaculum, manebant in eodem loco : 19 et si evenisset ut multo tempore maneret super illud, erant filii Isral in excubiis Domini, et non proficiscebantur 20 quot diebus fuisset nubes super tabernaculum. Ad imperium Domini erigebant tentoria, et ad imperium illius deponebant. 21 Si fuisset nubes a vespere usque mane, et statim diluculo tabernaculum reliquisset, proficiscebantur : et si post diem et noctem recessisset, dissipabant tentoria. 22 Si vero biduo aut uno mense vel longiori tempore fuisset super tabernaculum, manebant filii Isral in eodem loco, et non proficiscebantur : statim autem ut recessisset, movebant castra. 23 Per verbum Domini figebant tentoria, et per verbum illius proficiscebantur : erantque in excubiis Domini juxta imperium ejus per manum Moysi.