Verse 6

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
  • Num 5:2 : 2 “Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.
  • Num 19:11 : 11 Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
  • Num 19:18 : 18 Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.
  • Exod 18:19 : 19 Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Jesus Brought Before Pilate Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence.(Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor’s residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.
  • Num 27:5 : 5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD.
  • Lev 21:11 : 11 He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
  • Lev 24:11 : 11 The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses.(Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
  • Num 6:6-7 : 6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he must not contact a dead body. 7 He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.
  • Num 15:33 : 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.