Numbers 9:7
and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the Lord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”
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?
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 Israel?”
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?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- we may not offer
- Numbers 9:2; Exodus 12:27; Deuteronomy 16:2; 2 Chronicles 30:17–19; 1 Corinthians 5:7, 8