Numbers 9:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching the dead body of a man; why are we kept from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

Cross References

Exodus 12:27

you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Numbers 9:2

“Let the people of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.

Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;

Numbers 9:8

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

Deuteronomy 16:2

And you shall offer the passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place which the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.