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And those men said to Moses,[a] “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” So Moses said to them, “Remain[b] here and I will hear[c] what the Lord will command concerning you.”

The Lord spoke to Moses:

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:7 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Numbers 9:8 tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.
  3. Numbers 9:8 tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”