Moshe said to his father-in-law, *Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Numbers 9:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesach on that day, and they came before Moshe and before Aharon on that day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And there were certain men who were defiled by touching the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. American Standard Version (1901) And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: Common English Bible But there were persons who were unclean from contact with a human corpse, and they were unable to keep the Passover on that day. They approached Moses and Aaron that day. Catholic Public Domain Version But behold, certain ones, who were not able to observe the Passover on that day, being unclean because of the life of a man, approaching Moses and Aaron, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But, behold, some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron, |
Moshe said to his father-in-law, *Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moshe, but every small matter they judged themselves.
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
The son of the Yisra'eli woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moshe. His mother's name was Shelomit, the daughter of Divri, of the tribe of Dan.
Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moshe and Aharon, and to all the congregation.
This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
They stood before Moshe, and before El`azar the Kohen, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,
*Command the children of Yisra'el that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
Those men said to him, *We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Yisra'el?*
They led Yeshua therefore from Kayafa into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Pesach.