Numbers 9:7 - New International Reader's Version

⁷ They said to Moses, “We went near a dead body. So we aren’t ‘clean.’ But why should we be kept from bringing the Lord’s offering at the appointed time? Why shouldn’t we bring it along with the other Israelites?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?

Common English Bible

⁷ These persons said to him, “Although we are unclean from contact with a human corpse, why must we be prohibited from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the rest of the Israelites?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ said to them: "We are unclean because of the life of a man. Why have we been cheated, in that we are not permitted to offer, at its proper time, the oblation to the Lord among the sons of Israel?"

Numbers 9:7 Cross References

Exodus 12:27

Tell them, ‘It’s the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord. He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the Israelites bowed down and worshiped.

Numbers 9:2

“Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover Feast. Have them do it at the appointed time.

Numbers 9:6

But some of them couldn’t celebrate the Passover Feast on that day. That’s because they weren’t “clean.” They had gone near a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day.

Numbers 9:8

Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what the Lord wants you to do.”

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice an animal from your flock or herd. It is the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord your God. Sacrifice it at the special place the Lord will choose. He will put his Name there.