Numbers 9:6-8 New English Translation
6 It happened that some men[a] who were ceremonially defiled[b] by the dead body of a man[c] could not keep[d] the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 7 And those men said to Moses,[e] “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?” 8 So Moses said to them, “Remain[f] here and I will hear[g] what the Lord will command concerning you.”
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- Numbers 9:6 tn In the Hebrew text the noun has no definite article, and so it signifies “some” or “certain” men.
- Numbers 9:6 tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.
- Numbers 9:6 tn Or “a human corpse” (so NAB, NKJV). So also in v.7; cf. v. 10.
- Numbers 9:6 tn This clause begins with the vav (ו) conjunction and negative before the perfect tense. Here is the main verb of the sentence: They were not able to observe the Passover. The first part of the verse provides the explanation for their problem.
- Numbers 9:7 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Numbers 9:8 tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.
- Numbers 9:8 tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”
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