| Verse | Other Content | Text From King James | Text From Basic English |
| Nu 9:1 | C D S T R K | 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, | And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, |
| Nu 9:2 | C D S T R K | Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. | Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. |
| Nu 9:3 | C D S T R | 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. | In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law. |
| Nu 9:4 | C D S T | And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. | And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover. |
| Nu 9:5 | C D S T R | 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. | So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did. |
| Nu 9:6 | C D S T R K | 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: | And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: |
| Nu 9:7 | C D S T R | 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? | And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel? |
| Nu 9:8 | C D S T R K | And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. | And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you. |
| Nu 9:9 | C D S T | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| Nu 9:10 | C D S T R | 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. | Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord: |
| Nu 9:11 | C D S T R K | The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. | In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants; |
| Nu 9:12 | C D S T R K | 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. | Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover. |
| Nu 9:13 | C D S T R | 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. | But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him. |
| Nu 9:14 | C D S T R K | 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. | And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land. |
| Nu 9:15 | C D S T R K | 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. | And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning. |
| Nu 9:16 | C D S T R | So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. | And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night. |
| Nu 9:17 | C D S T R K | 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. | And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents. |
| Nu 9:18 | C D S T R | 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. | At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go away from that place. |
| Nu 9:19 | C D S T R K | 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. | When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on. |
| Nu 9:20 | C D S T | 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. | Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on. |
| Nu 9:21 | C D S T R | 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. | And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward. |
| Nu 9:22 | C D S T R K | 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. | Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey. |
| Nu 9:23 | C D S T R | 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. | At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses. |