>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/num/9?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#06809::c06809) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/numbers/9.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Numbers/9.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/num/9/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>God spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, instructing him to command the Israelites regarding Passover observance and guiding their travels through a cloud over the tabernacle. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>God told Moses to tell the Israelites to celebrate a special meal called Passover. They also followed a cloud to know when to move or stay put. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The Lord instructed Moses that the Israelites should celebrate the Passover at its appointed time, even allowing for those who are unclean or far away to observe it a month later. Additionally, God guided the Israelites’ movements through a cloud over the tabernacle; when the cloud lifted, they traveled, and when it stayed, they rested. This obedience to divine direction highlights the importance of following God's commandments and guidance. > >#Gospel/Obedience #Gospel/Guidance #Gospel/Covenants ###### 1 1 And 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, ###### 2 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. ###### 3 3 In 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. ###### 4 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. ###### 5 5 And 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. ###### 6 6 And 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: ###### 7 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 offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel? ###### 8 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you. ###### 9 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ###### 10 10 Speak 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. ###### 11 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ###### 12 12 They 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. ###### 13 13 But 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. ###### 14 14 And 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. ###### 15 15 And 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. ###### 16 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. ###### 17 17 And 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. ###### 18 18 At 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. ###### 19 19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. ###### 20 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 21 And 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. ###### 22 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 abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. ###### 23 23 At 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.