'¶The .ix. Chapter.'
'2 The Passouer. 13 Punishment for such as kepeth it not. 15 Of the cloude.'
1 AND the Lorde spake [unspec A] vnto Moyses in the wildernesse of Sinai, in the first moneth of the seconde yere, after they * 1.2were come out of the lande of Egypt, saying:
2 Let the children of Israel celebrate the Passouer at the tyme appoynted thervnto:
3 Euen ye fourteenth day of this moneth at euen: ye shall kepe it in his season ac∣cordyng to all the ceremonies of it, and according to all the maners therof, shall ye kepe it.
4 And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer.
5 And they kept the Passouer the foure∣teenth day of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: according to all that the Lorde cōmaunded Moyses, euen so dyd the children of Israel.
6 And certayne men were defiled by a dead man, that they myght not kepe the Passouer the same day, and they came before Moyses & Aaron the same day.
7 And those men sayde vnto hym, we are defiled by a dead man: wherfore are we kept backe, that we may not offer an offeryng vnto the Lorde in due season, among the children of Israel?
[unspec B]
8 And Moyses sayd vnto them: Stande styll, and I wyll heare what the Lorde wyll commaunde concernyng you.
9 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses,' saying:'
10
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say: If any man be vncleane by the reason of a coarse, or be in a way farre distaunt from you and from your gene∣rations, he shall kepe the Passouer vnto the Lorde.
11
The fourteenth day of the seconde moneth at euen let them kepe it: and eate it with vnleauened bread, & sowre hearbes.
12
Let them leaue none of it vnto the morning, * 1.3nor breake any bone of it: But accordyng to all the ordinaunce of the Passouer, let them kepe it.
13
But the man that is cleane, and is not [unspec C] in a iourney, and yet was negligent to kepe the Passouer: the same soule shal∣be cut of from his people, because he brought not the offeryng of the Lorde in his due season, that man shall beare his sinne.
14
And if a straunger dwell among you, and wyll kepe the Passouer vnto the Lorde: accordyng to the ordinance of the Passouer and maner therof, so shall he do. Ye shall haue one lawe both for the straunger, and for hym that was borne in the same lande.
15
And the same day that the tabernacle was reared vp, a * 1.4 cloude couered the tabernacle, [namely] the tabernacle of the testimonie: and at euen, there was vpon the tabernacle, as it were the ap∣pearaunce of fire, vntyll the mornyng.