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?”
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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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Commentary
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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| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ֠יֹּאמְרוּ | Vai.yo.me.ru | and they said | H559 → |
| הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים | ha.'a.na.Shim | the people | H582 → |
| הָהֵ֙מָּה֙ | ha.He.mah | <the> those | H1992 → |
| אֵלָ֔יו | 'e.Lav | to him | H413 → |
| אֲנַ֥חְנוּ | 'a.Nach.nu | we | H587 → |
| טְמֵאִ֖ים | te.me.'Im | [are] unclean | H2931 → |
| לְנֶ֣פֶשׁ | le.Ne.fesh | to a corpse of | H5315 → |
| אָדָ֑ם | 'a.Dam | a person | H120 → |
| לָ֣מָּה | La.mah | <to> why? | H4100 → |
| נִגָּרַ֗ע | ni.ga.Ra' | are we restrained | H1639 → |
| לְבִלְתִּ֨י | le.vil.Ti | to not | H1115 → |
| הַקְרִ֜ב | hak.Riv | to bring near | H7126 → |
| אֶת־ | 'et- | <obj.> | H853 → |
| קָרְבַּ֤ן | ka.re.Ban | [the] offering of | H7133 → |
| יְהוָה֙ | Yah.weh | Yahweh | H3068 → |
| בְּמֹ֣עֲד֔וֹ | be.Mo.'a.Do | at appointed time its | H4150 → |
| בְּת֖וֹךְ | be.Tokh | in among | H8432 → |
| בְּנֵ֥י | be.Nei | [the] people of | H1121 → |
| יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | Yis.ra.'El | Israel | H3478 → |
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