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Numbers 9 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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The Passover

(Exo 12:1–20 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:8 - And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:9 - And the Lord said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - 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.

The Cloud on the Tabernacle

(Exo 13:21, 22; 40:34–38 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:16 - And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23 - 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.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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