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Numbers 9:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.” "
Numbers 9:8
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6 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.
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 the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”
9 The LORD 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 the LORD.
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Numbers 9:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,"
Numbers 9:2
"“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season."
Numbers 9:3
"On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”"
Numbers 9:4
"Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover."
Numbers 9:5
"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 the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did."
Numbers 9:6
"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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