Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of 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,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

5And they kept the Passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that LORD commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

7and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of LORD in its appointed season among the sons of Israel?

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Cross References

Exodus 18:19Hearken now to my voice. I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee. Be thou for the people toward God, and bring thou the cases to God.

Leviticus 21:11neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother,

Numbers 5:2Command the sons of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every man who has an issue, and whoever is unclean about life.

Numbers 15:33And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

Numbers 19:14This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:18And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the souls who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:2-15

The Law of the Passover. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 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, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 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. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they… Read the whole commentary →

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