Numbers 9:7

They said: We are unclean because we touched a dead body. Why are we prevented from making our offerings to Jehovah at the same time the rest of the Israelites bring their offerings?

Exodus 12:27

You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

Numbers 9:2

The Israelites should celebrate the Passover at the same time every year.

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name.

2 Chronicles 30:17-19

Many people in the assembly had not made themselves holy. So the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all who were not clean and could not make their lambs holy for Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8

Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

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Summary

And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

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We may not offer

Numbers 9:2
The Israelites should celebrate the Passover at the same time every year.
Exodus 12:27
You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'
Deuteronomy 16:2
Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name.
2 Chronicles 30:17
Many people in the assembly had not made themselves holy. So the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all who were not clean and could not make their lambs holy for Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new batch of dough. For even Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us.

General references

Leviticus 23:5
The Passover, celebrated to honor Jehovah, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai asked: This person is defiled because he has touched a dead body. If he then touches any of these foods, will that make them defiled too? The priests answered, Yes.