{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T04:27:35.578Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Numbers","bookSlug":"numbers","chapter":9,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":36,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And those men said unto him, We <i>are</i> 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?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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 <i>be</i> in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, <i>and</i> eat it with unleavened bread and bitter <i>herbs</i>."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But the man that <i>is</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, <i>namely</i>, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"So it was alway: the cloud covered it <i>by day</i>, and the appearance of fire by night."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And <i>so</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And <i>so</i> it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and <i>that</i> the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether <i>it was</i> by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Or <i>whether it were</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Numbers 9 (KJV)","markdown":"[Numbers 9](https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/9 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}