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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?”

BSB

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ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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Hebraic traditional view

The make-up Passover

This passage creates something rare in the Law: a second chance at a feast. Anyone unclean or far away at Passover could keep it exactly one month later, on the 14th of the second month. Jewish tradition calls it Pesach Sheni, “Second Passover,” and it is still marked lightly today (some eat a piece of matzah on the day). Israel's kings used the provision at national scale: Hezekiah's great Passover was held in the second month on exactly this ground (2 Chronicles 30).

Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (who keeps the Second Passover) · 2 Chronicles 30 (the provision used nationally)

Original language & word study

19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַ֠יֹּאמְרוּVai.yo.me.ruand they saidH559
הָאֲנָשִׁ֤יםha.'a.na.Shimthe peopleH582
הָהֵ֙מָּה֙ha.He.mah<the> thoseH1992
אֵלָ֔יו'e.Lavto himH413
אֲנַ֥חְנוּ'a.Nach.nuweH587
טְמֵאִ֖יםte.me.'Im[are] uncleanH2931
לְנֶ֣פֶשׁle.Ne.feshto a corpse ofH5315
אָדָ֑ם'a.Dama personH120
לָ֣מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100
נִגָּרַ֗עni.ga.Ra'are we restrainedH1639
לְבִלְתִּ֨יle.vil.Tito notH1115
הַקְרִ֜בhak.Rivto bring nearH7126
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853
קָרְבַּ֤ןka.re.Ban[the] offering ofH7133
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
בְּמֹ֣עֲד֔וֹbe.Mo.'a.Doat appointed time itsH4150
בְּת֖וֹךְbe.Tokhin amongH8432
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain