Numbers 9:7-9

Modern English Version

⁷ And those men said to him, “We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

⁸ And Moses said to them, “Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

⁹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: