這是接續出埃及記25章

理由是：出埃及到西乃，留下用了一年時間，這段時間在曠野就是造[像徵性的神同在]，立律例和點人數。都是很直接可了解的內容，任何一本聖經或譯本都是如此，就不去翻譯及解說。

出埃及記  2026. Sep.1.1

參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本   

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1. And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2. “Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover at its appointed time.

3. In the fourteenth day of this month, between the two evenings, you shall keep it in its appointed time. You shall keep it according to all its statutes, and according to all the ceremonies of it.”

4. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

5. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the two evenings in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, the children of Israel did.

6. And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

7. And those men said to him, “We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

8. And Moses said to them, “You wait here, and I will hear what the LORD will command about you.”

9. And the LORD spoke to Moses saying,

10. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean because of a dead body, or in a journey afar off, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.

11. They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month between the two evenings, eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

13. But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and holds back from keeping the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

14. And if a stranger shall live among you, and will keep the Passover to the LORD, he shall do according to the law of the Passover, and according to its ordinance.You shall have only one law, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land.’ ”

 (A Faithful Version)

1. 耶和華在西乃，那是第二年在曠野第一個月的子，提醒摩西：

2. 讓以色列人當按約定的日子守逾越節。

3. 就是這年頭第一個月的十四日，從暮時翌日暮時，持守這個當行的。

4. 摩西就吩咐以色列人守逾越節。

5. 以色列人這在這日，就按耶和華吩咐，從暮時到翌日暮時，在西乃的曠野守逾越節。

6. 有人來問摩西和亞倫，若當天曾接觸過屍體，能否守逾越節。

7. 有人說，接觸過屍體，如作獻祭用的屍體，是否就不能守節？

8. 摩西回說：等等，我就去尋求耶和華對此有何吩咐。

9. 耶和華回摩西：

10. 告訴以色列人：你們或是以後的以色列民，若因接觸過屍體，或在遠行途中碰到不潔淨之物，仍須去守逾越節。

11. 就在逾越節當日，從日落之時到翌日暮時這段時間，改用無酵餅和吃苦菜。

12. 若用的是祭物，剩餘的不可留到翌日的早晨。這是逾越節的守則。

13. 若人是清白潔淨，不在遠行，卻不守節，是被自己的靈魂隔絕，為此沒有按時守節，就自己承擔後果。

14. 這日若有外人在你們中間，不要為此不守這逾越節，這日是為所有人。你們只緊守這節期，無論是寄居的還是本地人，都要遵守。

這段記述很精彩，它反映摩西是如何傳遞一個信息。

1. 逾越節是耶和華以大能的姿態，把雅各的後代領出為奴受困之境，守住對雅各的約。

2. 這約的起承轉合的過程摩西很清楚，在這節日的意義，他沒有個人思維的干預，這直白合乎事件的原意，將之形容為耶和華說的，合理。

3. 有人心中存疑，那是生活的現實，吩咐是一項原則。既是原則，摩西是可以按自己的理解，靈巧純良地運用這個原則。

4. 這個原則的精意：耶和華以大能助人不再受困。這是精神上和心靈上，不是肉體上。

5. 既是心靈不是肉體，它是可以應用在信的人，和仍未相信的人身上。

6. 既是原則，它就是通則適合所有的人去履行。

7. 那麼，他不是某人某族的節日，人人都可以跟著一起去走。

這是為何以色列人的信仰是一個典範，合世界的人，值得相信的地方。