Verse 7

Numbers 9:7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

7 Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ֠/יֹּאמְרוּ הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֤ים הָ/הֵ֨מָּה֙ אֵלָ֔י/ו אֲנַ֥חְנוּ טְמֵאִ֖ים לְ/נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֑ם לָ֣/מָּה נִגָּרַ֗ע לְ/בִלְתִּ֨י הַקְרִ֜ב אֶת קָרְבַּ֤ן יְהוָה֙ בְּ/מֹ֣עֲד֔/וֹ בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And the men said to me, "We are unclean because of a dead person; why should we be excluded from bringing the offering of the Lord at His appointed time among the children of Israel?"
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 9 Context
1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land... Focus ↗
2 Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time, Focus ↗
3 The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications... Focus ↗
4 And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase. Focus ↗
5 And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The... Focus ↗
6 But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a men, who could not make the phase on t... Focus ↗
7 Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not...
8 And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning you. Focus ↗
9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Focus ↗
10 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or sha... Focus ↗
11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unlea... Focus ↗
12 They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, a nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe... Focus ↗
13 But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not make the phase, that soul shall be cu... Focus ↗
14 The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall make the phase to the Lord according... Focus ↗
15 Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was... Focus ↗
16 So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire. Focus ↗
17 And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then the children of Israel marched for... Focus ↗
18 At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All... Focus ↗
19 And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the children of Israel kept the watches of t... Focus ↗
20 For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. At the commandment of the Lord they... Focus ↗
21 If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately at break of day left the tabernacle... Focus ↗
22 But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a longer time, the children of Isr... Focus ↗
23 By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word they marched: and kept the watches... Focus ↗