Numbers 9:6
Good News Translation
But there were some people who were ritually unclean because they had touched a corpse, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day. They went to Moses and Aaron

New Revised Standard Version
Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,

Contemporary English Version
Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the LORD, and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,

New American Bible
There were some, however, who were unclean because of a human corpse and so could not celebrate the Passover that day. These men came up to Moses and Aaron that same day

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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,

defiled

Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:

Numbers 6:6,7 All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead, . . .

Numbers 19:11,16,18 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . .

Leviticus 21:11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

they came

Numbers 15:33 That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

Numbers 27:2,5 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said: . . .

Exodus 18:15,19,26 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God? . . .

Leviticus 24:11 And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Context
The Second Passover
5And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded Moses. 6But 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,7Said 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?…
Cross References
Exodus 18:15
And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God?

Numbers 5:2
Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:

Numbers 6:7
Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Numbers 9:7
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 19:11
He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,

Numbers 27:2
And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said:

Numbers 9:5
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