Numbers 9:6

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:

Defiled

John 18:28

They came

General references

Leviticus 23:5

Haggai 2:13

Bible References

Defiled

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp every leper and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled [that is, ceremonially unclean] by [coming in contact with] the dead.

‘All the time that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

‘The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium (governor’s palace). Now it was early and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium so that they would not be [ceremonially] unclean, but might [be able to] eat [and participate in the Feast of Unleavened Bread which began after] the Passover [supper].

They came

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the congregation at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), saying,

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to ask [about the will] of God.

The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the Lord] and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

General references

The Lord’s Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight.

Then Haggai said, “If one who is [ceremonially] unclean because of [contact with] a corpse touches any of these [articles of food], will it be unclean?” And the priests answered, “It will be unclean.” [Ceremonial uncleanness, like sin, is infectious.]