Numbers 9:6

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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

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

They came

And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.

They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

General references

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.