Numbers 9:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and said to him, “Although we are unclean through touching a corpse, why must we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:2

You shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, at the place that the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Numbers 9:2

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

Exodus 12:27

you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed down and worshiped.

Numbers 9:6

Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day

Numbers 9:8

Moses said to them, “Wait, so that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”