¶ And certain men were defiled [a]by a dead man, that they might not keep the Passover the same day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron the same day.

And those men said unto him, We are defiled by a dead man: wherefore are we kept back that we may not [b]offer an offering unto the Lord in the time thereunto appointed among the children of Israel?

Then Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:6 By touching a corpse, or being at the burial.
  2. Numbers 9:7 Or, celebrate the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month.

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