Explanation: Numbers 9 contains the account of the second Passover and attendant events. In the first month of the second year after Israel came out of Egypt (possibly on the first day of the month), the LORD commanded the Israelites to observe the Passover on the fourteenth day of that month. However, when the day arrived, certain men came to Moses and Aaron to ask what they should do about observing the Passover since they were defiled by a dead body. Moses told them to wait until he could inquire of the LORD about what to do (1-8).
     And the LORD told Moses to let them partake of the Passover. Also he said that someone who was on a journey far away should eat the Passover. He further said that anyone who does not keep the Passover would be cut off from his people and would bear his sin. In addition, the strangers who sojourned among them could also keep the Passover, if they wished (9-14).
     When the LORD gave these regulations, the cloud of his presence was upon the Tabernacle, as it had been from the first day of the first month of the second year of their journey, when the Tabernacle was erected (Exodus 20:1). The cloud by day and the fire by night continued upon the Tabernacle constantly. When it lifted up, the Israelites prepared to journey. When it settled down, the Israelites prepared to stay in that spot. They followed the LORD in this way whether the cloud abode two days, a month, or a year (15-23).
     [ Sermons: Robert S Rayburn 1. Robert S Rayburn 2. Various. ]
     [ Illustration: Today's painting depicts a Passover, possibly the first. Another such Passover is described in Numbers 9. ]

     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 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 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 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as [all days which] the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. 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 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 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 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 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.

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