1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, (Nu 1:1)2“Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.3On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.” (Le 23:5)4So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.5And they kept 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 commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.6And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. (Ex 18:15; Ex 18:19; Ex 18:26; Nu 5:2; Nu 19:11; Nu 19:16; Nu 27:2; Joh 18:28)7And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?” (Nu 9:13)8And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.” (Nu 27:5)9The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,10“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.11In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. (Ex 12:6; Ex 12:8; De 16:3; 2Ch 30:2)12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it. (Ex 12:10; Ex 12:43; Ex 12:46; Ex 12:49; Joh 19:36)13But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. (Ge 17:14; Ex 12:15; Nu 9:7)14And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.” (Ex 12:48)
The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle
15On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. (Ex 13:21; Ex 40:17; Ex 40:34)16So it was always: the cloud covered it by day[1] and the appearance of fire by night.17And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped. (Ex 40:36; Nu 10:11; Nu 10:33)18At the command of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the Lord they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. (1Co 10:1)19Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the Lord and did not set out. (Nu 1:53)20Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they remained in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they set out.21And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.22Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out. (Ex 40:36)23At the command of the Lord they camped, and at the command of the Lord they set out. They kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses. (Nu 9:19)
1The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said,2‘Make the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.3Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations.’4So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,5and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.6But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day7and said to Moses, ‘We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?’8Moses answered them, ‘Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you.’9Then the Lord said to Moses,10‘Tell the Israelites: “When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the Lord’s Passover,11but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.12They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.13But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.14‘ “A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the Lord’s Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.” ’
The cloud above the tabernacle
15On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.16That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.17Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites set up camp.18At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at his command they set up camp. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s order and did not set out.20Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle for only a few days; at the Lord’s command they would set up camp, and then at his command they would set out.21Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out.22Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.23At the Lord’s command they set up camp, and at the Lord’s command they set out. They obeyed the Lord’s order, in accordance with his command through Moses.
1The LORD spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai. It was the first month of the second year after the people came out of Egypt. He said,2‘Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover Feast at the appointed time.3Celebrate it when the sun goes down on the 14th day of this month. Obey all its rules and laws.’4So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover Feast.5They did it in the Desert of Sinai. They celebrated it when the sun went down on the 14th day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.6But some of them couldn’t celebrate the Passover Feast on that day. That’s because they weren’t ‘clean’. They had gone near a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day.7They said to Moses, ‘We went near a dead body. So we aren’t “clean”. But why should we be kept from bringing the LORD’s offering at the appointed time? Why shouldn’t we bring it along with the other Israelites?’8Moses answered them, ‘Wait until I find out what the LORD wants you to do.’9Then the LORD spoke to Moses. He said,10‘Tell the Israelites, “Suppose any of you or your children are ‘unclean’ because they have gone near a dead body. Or suppose they are away on a journey. They must still celebrate the LORD’s Passover.11They must celebrate it on the 14th day of the second month. They must do so when the sun goes down. They must eat the lamb together with bread made without yeast. They must eat it with bitter plants.12They must not leave any of it until morning. They must not break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover Feast, they must follow all the rules.13But suppose someone is ‘clean’ and not on a journey. And they fail to celebrate the Passover Feast. Then they must be separated from the community of Israel. They did not bring the LORD’s offering at the appointed time. They will be punished for their sin.14‘ “What if there is an outsider living among you? And what if they want to celebrate the LORD’s Passover? Then they must obey its rules and laws. You must have the same laws for outsiders as you do for the Israelites.” ’
The cloud covers the holy tent
15The holy tent was set up. It was the tent where the tablets of the covenant law were kept. On the day it was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening until morning the cloud above the tent looked like fire.16That’s what continued to happen. The cloud covered the tent. At night the cloud looked like fire.17When the cloud lifted from its place above the tent, the Israelites started out. Where the cloud settled, the Israelites camped.18When the LORD gave the command, the Israelites started out. And when he gave the command, they camped. As long as the cloud stayed above the holy tent, they remained in camp.19Sometimes the cloud remained above the tent for a long time. Then the Israelites obeyed the LORD’s order. They didn’t start out.20Sometimes the cloud was above the tent for only a few days. When the LORD would give the command, they would camp. And when he would give the command, they would start out.21Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening until morning. When it lifted in the morning, they started out. It didn’t matter whether it was day or night. When the cloud lifted, the people started out.22It didn’t matter whether the cloud stayed above the holy tent for two days or a month or a year. The Israelites would remain in camp. They wouldn’t start out. But when the cloud lifted, they would start out.23When the LORD gave the command, they camped. And when he gave the command, they started out. They obeyed the LORD’s order. They obeyed him, just as he had commanded them through Moses.
Numbers 9
King James Version
1And 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,2Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.3In 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.4And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.5And 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.6And 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:7And 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?8And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.9And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,10Speak 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.11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs .12They 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.13But 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.14And 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.15And 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.16So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day , and the appearance of fire by night.17And 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.18At 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.19And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.20And 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.21And 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.22Or 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.23At 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.
Das Pessach vor dem Aufbruch und das Pessach im zweiten Monat
1Im ersten Monat des zweiten Jahres nach ihrem Auszug aus Ägypten sprach der HERR in der Wüste Sinai zu Mose: (Ex 40:17; Nu 1:1)2Die Israeliten sollen zur festgesetzten Zeit das Pessachfest feiern. (Ex 12:1)3Am vierzehnten Tag dieses Monats sollt ihr es in der Abenddämmerung zur festgesetzten Zeit feiern. Entsprechend aller betreffenden Satzungen und Rechtsentscheide sollt ihr es feiern.4Da sagte Mose zu den Israeliten, sie sollten das Pessachfest feiern.5So feierten sie am vierzehnten Tag des ersten Monats in der Abenddämmerung das Pessachfest in der Wüste Sinai. Genauso, wie der HERR es Mose geboten hatte, machten es die Israeliten.6Es gab Männer, die unrein waren, weil sie einen toten Menschen berührt hatten, und die deshalb an jenem Tag das Pessachfest nicht feiern konnten. Die Männer kamen noch am selben Tag zu Mose und Aaron (Nu 5:2; Nu 19:11)7und sagten zu ihm: Wir sind unrein, weil wir einen toten Menschen berührt haben. Warum soll es uns verwehrt sein, zur festgesetzten Zeit wie die anderen Israeliten dem HERRN unsere Opfergabe darzubringen?8Mose antwortete ihnen: Bleibt da; ich will hören, was euch der HERR gebietet.9Der HERR sprach zu Mose:10Sag den Israeliten: Wenn irgendeiner unrein wurde durch Berührung eines Toten oder auf einer weiten Reise ist, sei es unter euch oder in den kommenden Generationen, er aber das Pessach für den HERRN feiern will,11dann dürfen sie es im zweiten Monat am vierzehnten Tag in der Abenddämmerung feiern; zu ungesäuerten Broten und Bitterkräutern sollen sie es essen.12Sie sollen davon nichts bis zum nächsten Morgen übrig lassen und sollen an ihm keinen Knochen zerbrechen. Entsprechend der Pessachsatzung sollen sie es feiern.13Wer jedoch rein ist und sich nicht auf einer Reise befindet, es aber trotzdem unterlässt, das Pessachfest zu feiern, der soll aus seinen Stammesgenossen ausgemerzt werden, denn er hat dem HERRN seine Opfergabe nicht zur festgesetzten Zeit dargebracht; ein solcher Mensch muss die Folgen seiner Sünde tragen.14Wenn ein Fremder sich bei euch aufhält und das Pessachfest für den HERRN feiern will, dann soll er es nach der Pessachsatzung und ihren Rechtsentscheiden feiern. Für den Fremden und für den Einheimischen soll bei euch dieselbe Satzung gelten.
Unter Führung der Wolkensäule
15An dem Tag, als man die Wohnung aufstellte, bedeckte die Wolke die Wohnung, das Zelt des Bundeszeugnisses. Am Abend war über der Wohnung etwas wie ein Feuerschein bis zum Morgen. (Ex 40:34)16So war es die ganze Zeit: Die Wolke bedeckte sie und bei Nacht der Feuerschein.17Jedes Mal, wenn sich die Wolke über dem Zelt erhob, brachen die Israeliten daraufhin auf, und wo sich die Wolke niederließ, dort schlugen die Israeliten ihr Lager auf.18Auf Befehl des HERRN brachen die Israeliten auf und auf Befehl des HERRN schlugen sie ihr Lager auf. Solange die Wolke über der Wohnung lag, blieben sie im Lager.19Auch wenn die Wolke längere Zeit über der Wohnung verweilte, taten die Israeliten den Dienst des HERRN und brachen nicht auf.20Und wenn es vorkam, dass die Wolke nur wenige Tage über der Wohnung war, blieben sie auf Befehl des HERRN im Lager und brachen auf Befehl des HERRN auf.21Und wenn es vorkam, dass die Wolke nur vom Abend bis zum Morgen blieb und sich am Morgen erhob, dann brachen sie am nächsten Morgen auf. Ob es bei Tag oder bei Nacht war: Wenn die Wolke sich erhob, brachen sie auf.22Ob es zwei Tage dauerte oder einen Monat oder noch länger: Wenn die Wolke über der Wohnung anhielt und blieb, dann schlugen die Israeliten ihr Lager auf und brachen nicht auf; erst wenn sie sich erhob, brachen sie auf.23Auf Befehl des HERRN schlugen sie das Lager auf und auf Befehl des HERRN brachen sie auf. Sie taten den Dienst des HERRN gemäß dem durch Mose gegebenen Befehl des HERRN.