Numbers 9:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the LORD, and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,

Cross References

Exodus 18:15

Moses answered, “Because they come here to find out what God wants them to do.

Exodus 18:19

God will help you if you follow my advice. You should be the one to speak to God for the people,

Exodus 18:26

They served as judges, deciding the easy cases themselves, but bringing the more difficult ones to Moses.

Leviticus 21:11

Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother.

Numbers 15:33

He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the community.

Numbers 19:11

If you touch a dead body, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:14

If someone dies in a tent while you are there, you will be unclean for seven days. And anyone who later enters the tent will also be unclean.

Numbers 19:16

If you touch the body of someone who was killed or who died of old age, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 27:2

One day his daughters went to the sacred tent, where they met with Moses, Eleazar, and some other leaders of Israel, as well as a large crowd of Israelites. The young women said:

Numbers 27:5

Moses asked the LORD what should be done,

Numbers 5:2

to say to the people of Israel, “Put out of the camp everyone who has leprosy or a bodily discharge or who has touched a dead body. Now that I live among my people, their camp must be kept clean.”

Numbers 9:7

“Even though we have touched a dead body, why can't we celebrate Passover and offer sacrifices to the LORD at the same time as everyone else?”

John 18:28

It was early in the morning when Jesus was taken from Caiaphas to the building where the Roman governor stayed. But the crowd waited outside. Any of them who had gone inside would have become unclean and would not be allowed to eat the Passover meal.