Numbers 9:6

World English Bible (2000)

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 before Aaron on that day.

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  • Exod 18:15 : 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
  • Num 27:2 : 2 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
  • Num 5:2 : 2 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
  • Num 19:11 : 11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
  • Num 19:16 : 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.
  • Num 19:18 : 18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
  • Exod 18:19 : 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.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  • John 18:28 : 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.
  • Num 27:5 : 5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
  • Lev 21:11 : 11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
  • Lev 24:11 : 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.
  • Num 6:6-7 : 6 "'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body. 7 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.
  • Num 15:33 : 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 9:7
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    7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"

  • Num 9:9-13
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    82%

    9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

    11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

    12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

    13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  • Num 19:11-14
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    11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

    12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

    13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

    14 "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

  • 2 Chr 30:16-18
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    76%

    16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

    17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

    18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

  • Lev 22:4-6
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    4 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

    5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

  • Lev 21:1
    74%

    1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

  • Num 19:16
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    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.

  • Num 5:2
    73%

    2 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

  • Num 9:2-5
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    73%

    2 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

    3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

    4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.

    5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

  • Lev 15:31
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    31 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • Lev 11:28
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    28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
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    6 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses."

  • Num 6:6
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    6 "'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

  • Num 19:18-20
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    71%

    18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

    19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

    20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

  • Lev 11:24-25
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    71%

    24 "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

    25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 6:9
    70%

    9 "'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.

  • Ezra 6:20
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    20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

  • Ezek 44:25-26
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    70%

    25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

    26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

  • Lev 9:1
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    1 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

  • Lev 11:40
    70%

    40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 2 Chr 30:3
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    3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • Lev 15:1
    69%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 6:11
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    11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.

  • Lev 11:32
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    32 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

  • Num 31:24
    69%

    24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

  • Lev 15:27
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    27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Exod 19:14
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    14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

  • Hag 2:13
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    13 Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."

  • Lev 15:10
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    10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 17:15
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    15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

  • Num 8:6
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    6 "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

  • Num 19:9
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    9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.