Self-interpreting Bible

1 AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the ^afirst month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

• a: Ex. 40:2 , Nu. 1:1

2 Let the children of Israel also ^bkeep the passover at his appointed season.

• b: Ex. 12:2 , Ex. 12:14 , Ex. 12:25 , Ex. 12:43 - 49 , Ex. 13:10 , Le. 23:5 , Nu. 28:16 , De. 16:1 , De. 16:2

3 In the fourteenth day of this month, ¹at 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.

• 1: Heb. between the two evenings.

4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

5 And they ^ckept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month ^dat even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

• c: Ex. 12:1 - 14 , Ex. 12:43 - 49 , Jos. 5:10 , 2 Chronicles 30 , 2 Chronicles 35 , Mat. 26:2 , 1Co. 5:7 , 1Co. 5:8
• d: Ex. 12:6 , He. 9:26 , Mat. 27:46 , Mat. 27:50

6 ¶And there were certain men, who were ^edefiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: ^fand they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

• e: Le. 21:11 , Nu. 5:2 , Nu. 5:3 , Nu. 6:6 , Nu. 19:11 , Nu. 19:16 , Nu. 19:18 , Jn. 18:28
• f: Ex. 18:15 , Ex. 18:19 , Ex. 18:26 , Nu. 27:2

7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not ^goffer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

• g: Ex. 12:27 , De. 16:2 , 1Co. 5:7 , 1Co. 5:8

8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will ^hhear what the LORD will command concerning you.

• h: He. 3:5 , He. 3:6 , Jn. 7:17 , Eze. 2:7 , Eze. 3:17 , 1Co. 11:2 , 1Co. 11:3 , 1Co. 4:2 , Ac. 20:27 , Pr. 3:5 , Pr. 3:6 , Ps. 85:8 , Ps. 25:14 , Nu. 27:5

9 ¶And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be ⁱunclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

• i: Nu. 9:6 , Nu. 9:7 , Ep. 2:1 , Ep. 2:2 , Ep. 2:12 , Ep. 2:13 , Ep. 3:6 - 9 , Ro. 15:8 - 19 , Ro. 16:25 , Ro. 16:26 , 1Co. 6:9 - 11

11 The ^jfourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and ^keat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

• j: 2Ch. 30:2 - 15 , Ex. 12:2 - 14 , Ex. 12:43 - 49 , Jn. 19:36
• k: Ex. 12:8

12 ^lThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, ^mnor break any bone of it: ⁿaccording to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

• l: Ex. 12:10
• m: Ex. 12:46 , Jn. 19:36
• n: Ex. 12:43

13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and ^oforbeareth 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 ^pbear his sin.

• o: Nu. 15:30 , Nu. 15:31 , Nu. 19:13 , Ex. 12:15 , Ge. 17:14 , Le. 17:4 , Le. 17:10 , Le. 17:14 , Le. 17:16 , He. 10:26 - 29 , He. 6:6 , He. 2:3
• p: Nu. 5:31

14 And if ^qa 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.

• q: Ex. 12:49 , Le. 24:22 , Le. 19:34 , Nu. 15:15 , Nu. 15:16 , Nu. 15:29 , Nu. 19:10 , Nu. 35:15 , De. 29:11 , De. 31:12 , Ep. 2:12 - 22 , Is. 56:6 , Is. 56:7
• *: sojourn-dwell for a time. , manner-custom, habit.

15 ¶And ^ron 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.

• r: Ex. 40:17 , Ex. 40:34 , Ex. 13:21 , Ex. 14:20 , Ex. 14:24 , Nu. 14:14 , Nu. 10:34 , Eze. 10:3 , Eze. 10:4

16 So ^sit was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

• s: Nu. 9:18 - 22 , Ex. 13:21 , Ex. 40:38 , Ne. 9:19 , Ps. 105:39 , Ps. 78:14 , Is. 4:5 , Is. 4:6 , 1Co. 10:1 , 2Co. 5:19 , Re. 21:3

17 And ^twhen 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.

• t: Nu. 10:11 , Nu. 10:33 , Nu. 10:34 , Nu. 10:36 , Ps. 32:8 , Ps. 73:24 , Ps. 78:14 , Ps. 80:1 , Ps. 80:2 , Ps. 105:39 , Is. 49:10 , Jn. 10:3 - 5 , Jn. 10:9 , 1Co. 10:1 , Ex. 40:36

18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: ^uas long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

• u: 1Co. 10:1

19 And when the cloud ²tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel ^vkept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

• 2: Heb. prolonged.
• v: Nu. 1:53

20 And 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.

21 And so it was, when the cloud ³abode 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.

• 3: Heb. was.

22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel ^wabode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

• w: Ex. 40:36 , Ex. 40:37

23 At ^xthe 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.

• x: Nu. 1:54 , Nu. 8:20 , Ex. 39:42 , Ex. 40:16 , Ex. 23:21 , Ex. 23:22 , Mat. 28:20 , Pr. 3:5 , Pr. 3:6 , Ps. 32:8 , Ps. 48:14 , Ps. 73:24 , Ps. 107:7 , Ps. 143:10 , Is. 55:4 , Is. 63:12 - 14 , Mat. 16:24 , 1Co. 11:1