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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,
2The sons of Israel shall keep the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. at its appointed time.
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Pesach is Passover. Mo’ed is the appointed time. The same words as in Exodus and Leviticus.
3On the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its Rules that are meant to last. and all its rules you shall keep it.
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Bein ha-arbayim is between the evenings, the same phrase as in Exodus. Chuqqot are statutes. Mishpatim are rules.
4Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, that they should keep the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt..
5They kept the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
6There were men who were unclean from a human corpse, and they were not able to keep the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. on that day. They came near before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
7Those men said to him, We are unclean from a human corpse. Why should we be held back, so that we do not bring God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s A gift brought close to God. at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?
8Moses said to them, Stand, and I will hear what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commands for you.
9God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
10Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Any man who is unclean from a corpse, or is on a far journey, among you or in your later generations, he shall still keep a The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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The word “far” is written with a dot over the last letter. The word is printed. The dot is not used to drop it.
11In the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings, they shall keep it. They shall eat it with Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread and bitter herbs.
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Merorim are bitter herbs, eaten with the Passover.
12They shall not leave any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it. According to every A rule that is meant to last. of the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. they shall keep it.
13But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and stops keeping the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt., that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not bring God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s A gift brought close to God. at its appointed time. That man shall carry his offense.
14When a A person living in a land that is not their own. lives with you and would keep a The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he shall do so according to the A rule that is meant to last. of the The meal that remembers the night Yahweh passed over Israel’s houses in Egypt. and its rule. You shall have one A rule that is meant to last., for you, for the A person living in a land that is not their own., and for the native of the land.
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Ger is a sojourner. Ezrach is a native. One statute covers both.
15On the day the dwelling was set up, the cloud covered the dwelling, the tent of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest.. In the evening it was over the dwelling, like the look of fire, until morning.
16So it was always. The cloud covered it, and the look of fire by night.
17Whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel set out. In the place where the cloud settled, there the sons of Israel camped.
18At God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth the sons of Israel set out, and at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth they camped. All the days the cloud settled on the dwelling, they camped.
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Al pi Yahweh is at Yahweh’s mouth, at his word. The same phrase as in the Levite counts.
19When the cloud stayed long on the dwelling, many days, the sons of Israel kept God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s watch and did not set out.
20Sometimes the cloud was on the dwelling a few days. At God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth they camped, and at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth they set out.
21Sometimes the cloud stayed from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted in the morning, and they set out. Or it stayed a day and a night, and when the cloud lifted they set out.
22Or two days, or a month, or a longer span: when the cloud stayed long on the dwelling to settle on it, the sons of Israel camped and did not set out, and when it lifted they set out.
23At God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth they camped, and at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth they set out. They kept God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s watch, at God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s mouth, by the hand of Moses.