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They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it.

But anyone who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet refrains from keeping the passover, shall be cut off from the people for not presenting the Lord 's offering at its appointed time; such a one shall bear the consequences for the sin.

Any alien residing among you who wishes to keep the passover to the Lord shall do so according to the statute of the passover and according to its regulation; you shall have one statute for both the resident alien and the native.

Sometimes the cloud would remain from evening until morning; and when the cloud lifted in the morning, they would set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they would set out.

Make two silver trumpets; you shall make them of hammered work; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation, and for breaking camp.

The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this shall be a perpetual institution for you throughout your generations.

They set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by Moses.

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you'; come with us, and we will treat you well; for the Lord has promised good to Israel."

He said, "Do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

Moreover, if you go with us, whatever good the Lord does for us, the same we will do for you."

So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them,

We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!'

I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.

So the Lord said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.

And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wailed in the hearing of the Lord , saying, ‘If only we had meat to eat! Surely it was better for us in Egypt.' Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

But Moses said, "The people I am with number six hundred thousand on foot; and you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month'!

Are there enough flocks and herds to slaughter for them? Are there enough fish in the sea to catch for them?"

The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord 's power limited? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."