Numbers 9:7

Modern English Version

And those men said to him, “We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

Cross References

Exodus 12:27

that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed down and worshipped.

Numbers 9:2

Let the Israelites also keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Numbers 9:6

There were men who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9:8

And Moses said to them, “Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Deuteronomy 16:2

Therefore, you must sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, in the place where the Lord shall choose to place His name.