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?}”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?

American Standard Version (1901)

and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?

Common English Bible

These persons said to him, “Although we are unclean from contact with a human corpse, why must we be prohibited from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the rest of the Israelites?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

said to them: "We are unclean because of the life of a man. Why have we been cheated, in that we are not permitted to offer, at its proper time, the oblation to the Lord among the sons of Israel?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel?

Numbers 9:7 Tagairtí Cros

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.