Numbers 9:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ and said to him, ‘We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be excluded from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time 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

you are to reply, “It is the Passover sacrifice  to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.” ’ So the people knelt low and worshipped.

Numbers 9:2

‘The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

Numbers 9:6

But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day.  These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day

Numbers 9:8

Moses replied to them, ‘Wait here until I hear what the Lord commands for you.’

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice to the Lord your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have his name dwell.