1 以色列人出埃及地以后， 第二年正月， 耶和华在西奈旷野吩咐摩西说： 2 "以色列人要在指定的时间守逾越节， 3 就是本月十四日， 黄昏的时候， 你们要在指定的时间守这节， 要照着这节的一切律例和一切典章而行。" 4 于是， 摩西吩咐以色列人要守逾越节。 5 他们就在正月十四日， 黄昏的时候， 在西奈旷野守了逾越节； 耶和华怎样吩咐了摩西， 以色列人就怎样行了。 6 有几个人因为触着死人而不洁净， 以致他们不能在那一天守逾越节； 当日他们来到摩西和亚伦面前。 7 这些人对摩西说： "我们虽然因为接触死人而不洁净， 为什么我们被拒绝， 不能在以色列人中， 在指定的时间献耶和华的供物呢？" 8 摩西对他们说： "你们且等候， 我要去听耶和华对你们有什么吩咐。" 9 耶和华对摩西说： 10 "你要告诉以色列人说： 你们或你们的后代中， 如果有人因为接触死人而成为不洁净， 或因到远方旅行， 他还要向耶和华守逾越节； 11 他们要在二月十四日， 黄昏的时候， 守逾越节， 同时要吃无酵饼和苦菜； 12 一点也不留到早晨， 羊羔的骨头， 一根也不可折断； 他们要照着逾越节的一切律例守节。 13 但那洁净的， 又不在路上旅行的人， 如果忽略守逾越节， 那人就要从自己的民中被剪除， 因为他没有在指定的时间内献上耶和华的供物， 那人必担当自己的罪。 14 如果有外人寄居在你们中间， 想要向耶和华守逾越节， 他就必须照着逾越节的条例和典章而行； 不论是外人或是本地人， 只有一样的条例。" 15 在竖立帐幕的那一天， 有云彩遮盖着帐幕， 就是法柜的帐幕； 到了晚上， 云彩在帐幕上， 形状像火， 直到早晨。 16 常常是这样： 白天有云彩遮盖帐幕， 夜间云彩形状像火。 17 云彩什么时候从会幕上收去， 以色列人就起行； 云彩在什么地方停住， 以色列人就在那里安营。 18 以色列人照着耶和华的吩咐起行， 也照着耶和华的吩咐安营； 云彩在帐幕上停留多久， 他们就安营多久。 19 如果云彩多日停留在帐幕上， 以色列人就遵守耶和华的吩咐， 不起行。 20 有时云彩停留在帐幕上只有几天， 他们就照着耶和华的吩咐安营； 也照着耶和华的吩咐起行。 21 有时云彩从晚上到早晨停住； 到了早晨， 云彩一收上去， 他们就起行； 有时云彩从白昼到晚上都停住； 云彩一收上去， 他们就起行。 22 云彩停留在帐幕上不论有多久， 或两天、或一月、或一年， 以色列人就安营， 不起行； 云彩一收上去， 他们就起行。 23 他们照着耶和华的吩咐安营， 也照着耶和华的吩咐起行。他们遵守耶和华吩咐的， 就是照着耶和华借摩西吩咐的。

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,2 `Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season;3 in the fourteenth day of this month between the evenings ye prepare it in its appointed season; according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances ye prepare it.`4 And Moses speaketh unto the sons of Israel to prepare the passover,5 and they prepare the passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done.6 And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,7 and those men say unto him, `We are defiled by the body of a man; why are we withheld so as not to bring near the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?`8 And Moses saith unto them, `Stand ye, and I hear what Jehovah hath commanded concerning you.`9 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,10 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;11 in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;12 they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.13 `And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin.14 `And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.`15 And in the day of the raising up of the tabernacle hath the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there is on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire till morning;16 so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.17 And according to the going up of the cloud from off the tent and afterwards do the sons of Israel journey; and in the place where the cloud doth tabernacle, there do the sons of Israel encamp;18 by the command of Jehovah the sons of Israel journey, and by the command of Jehovah they encamp; all the days that the cloud doth tabernacle over the tabernacle they encamp.19 And in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle many days, then have the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journey not,20 and so when the cloud is a number of days over the tabernacle; by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey.21 And so when the cloud is from evening till morning, when the cloud hath gone up in the morning, then they have journeyed; whether by day or by night, when the cloud hath gone up, then they have journeyed.22 Whether two days, or a month, or days, in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle, to tabernacle over it, the sons of Israel encamp, and journey not; and in its being lifted up they journey;23 by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey; the charge of Jehovah they have kept, by the command of Jehovah in the hand of Moses.