Numbers 9:7 - New International Version (Anglicised)

and said to Moses, ‘We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?’

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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

then tell them, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.” ’ Then the people bowed down and worshipped.

Numbers 9:2

‘Make the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.

Numbers 9:6

But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

Numbers 9:8

Moses answered them, ‘Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you.’

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.