There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

  • KJV King James Version

    And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

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Cross-references (14)

Passages linked to Numbers 9:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 18:15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
  • Numbers 27:2 They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
  • Exodus 18:19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
  • Numbers 5:2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
  • Numbers 19:11 “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
  • Numbers 19:16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
  • Exodus 18:26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  • Numbers 19:18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
  • Numbers 27:5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
  • John 18:28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
  • Leviticus 21:11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.
  • Leviticus 24:11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
  • Numbers 6:6-7 “ ‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.
  • Numbers 15:33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By touching a corpse, or being at the burial.

By touching a corpse, or being at the burial.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 9:6 And there were certain men, who were…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By the dead body of a man; by the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And those men said unto him,.... To Moses, who…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They came - For resolution of their difficulty.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 9:6. They came before Moses — For resolution…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Certain men - Probably Mishael and Elizaphan, who buried…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Some. Hebrew, "and there was men," a solecism, rejected…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain A SECOND PASSOVER ALLOWED. (Num 9:6-14)
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain THE SUPPLEMENTAL PASSOVER, Num_9:6-14.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. Uncleanness prevented any share in a sacrificial feast…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) And there were certain men . . .…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There were certain men. It has been supposed by…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The Substitute Festival, or Little Passover
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 became unclean by the body of a dead man

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