Numbers 9:7 - English Standard Version 2016

⁷ And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

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 struck 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 a dead body, 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 that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.