Numbers 9:7

Easy To Read Version

Those people said to Moses, “We touched a person’s dead body and became unclean. The priests stopped us from giving gifts to the Lord at the chosen time. So we can’t {celebrate Passover} with the other people of Israel! {What should we do?}”

Cross References

Exodus 12:27

you will say, ‘This Passover is to honor the Lord. Why? Because when we were in Egypt, the Lord passed over [74] the houses of Israel. The Lord killed the Egyptians, but he saved the people in our houses. So now the people bow down and worship the Lord.’”

Numbers 9:2

“Tell the people of Israel to celebrate Passover at the chosen time—

Numbers 9:6

But some of the people could not celebrate Passover [139] that day. They were unclean [140] because they had touched a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day.

Numbers 9:8

Moses said to them, “I will ask the Lord what he says about this.”

Deuteronomy 16:2

You must go to the place the Lord will choose to be his special house. There you must offer the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord. You must offer the cows and goats.