Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

General references

Bible References

Defiled

Numbers 5:2
“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
Numbers 6:6
He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the Lord.
Numbers 19:11
“The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.
Leviticus 21:11
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
John 18:28
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

They came

Numbers 15:33
Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community.
Numbers 27:2
They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
Exodus 18:15
Moses replied to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Leviticus 24:11
Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name, and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

General references

Leviticus 23:5
The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.
Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”

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