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Numbers 9

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A cloud over the tabernacle can hold Israel in place for a month, or lift after one night; when it lifts, the people set out, whether by day or by night.

The Passover, with an exceptionvv. 1–14

In the first month of the second year, the LORD commanded Israel to keep the Passover in the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel did so at twilight on the fourteenth day. Then some men, unclean because of a dead body, came before Moses and Aaron with the perfectly reasonable question of why they should be excluded. Moses waited for instructions, and the answer made room for the unclean and the traveller to keep the Passover in the second month, while requiring the clean man at home to keep it on time; the same statute applied to foreigner and native alike.

The cloud’s leisurely departuresvv. 15–23

When the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered it by day and appeared like fire by night. Israel’s travelling arrangements were wonderfully free of a timetable: the cloud might linger for two days, a month, or longer, or lift from evening until morning. The people camped at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command, which is a very exact way of travelling without knowing when the journey will begin.

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Num 9:1In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Num 9:2“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Num 9:3You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
Num 9:4So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
Num 9:5and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Num 9:6But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
Num 9:7and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”
Num 9:8“Wait here until I find out what the LORD commands concerning you,” Moses replied.
Num 9:9Then the LORD said to Moses,
Num 9:10“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
Num 9:11Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Num 9:12they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
Num 9:13But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
Num 9:14If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
Num 9:15On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
Num 9:16It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
Num 9:17Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
Num 9:18At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
Num 9:19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.
Num 9:20Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
Num 9:21Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
Num 9:22Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.
Num 9:23They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.

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Where this is echoed

Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 184 passages were voted onto 20 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

15 Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
12 John 19:36Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
12 Exodus 12:46It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
15 Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
17 Exodus 40:36–38Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
2 Deuteronomy 16:1–2Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 1 Corinthians 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
12 Exodus 12:10Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
13 Genesis 17:14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
13 Exodus 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
14 Exodus 12:48–49If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
1 Numbers 1:1On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
6 Numbers 27:2the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said,
6 Exodus 18:15“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
12 Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
15 Nehemiah 9:19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

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