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 Israelis to send outside the encampment every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is ritually defiled by contact with a corpse.

"During the entire time of his dedication, he is not to come near a dead body.

"Whoever comes in contact with the body of a dead person is to remain unclean for seven days.

He is not to come near any dead body whether the deceased is his father or his mother so as not to defile himself.

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

They came

The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and all the people.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, the elders, and the entire community at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before them, and said,

Moses told his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.

Then the Israeli woman's son blasphemed the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, from the tribe of Dan.

General references

"The LORD's Passover is to begin on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight.

So Haggai responded, "If someone who is unclean because of contact with a dead body were to touch any of these things, would they become unclean?" The priests responded, "They would be unclean."