Numeri 9:7

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

en zeiden tot hen: Wij zijn aan een menschenlijk verontreinigd; waarom zouden wij nu van het voorrecht verstoken zijn de gave voor den Heer op haar tijd te midden der Israelieten te brengen?

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en spraken tot hen: Wij zijn onrein wegens een dood mens: waarom zouden wij minder zijn, dat wij onze gave den Heer niet zouden mogen brengen op den gezetten tijd onder de kinderen Israls?

Staten Vertaling
En diezelve lieden zeiden tot hem: Wij zijn onrein over het dode lichaam eens mensen; waarom zouden wij verkort worden, dat wij de offerande des HEEREN op zijn gezetten tijd niet zouden offeren, in het midden van de kinderen Israels?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we may not offer: Numbers 9:2, Exodus 12:27, Deuteronomy 16:2, 2 Chronicles 30:17-19, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 5:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:10 - be unclean Numbers 9:13 - because Numbers 28:2 - General Ezra 6:21 - all such

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And those men said unto him,.... To Moses, who was the chief magistrate, though Aaron was the high priest. Jarchi says, they were both sitting together when the men came, and put the question to them, but it was not proper to speak to one after another; for if Moses knew not, how should Aaron know? says he; the more difficult matters were brought to Moses, and he gave answers to them:

we [are] defiled by the dead body of a man; they had touched it, or had been where it was, or at the funeral of it, and so were defiled: this they knew was their case by a law before mentioned, and which they speak of, not as a sin purposely committed by them, but as what had unhappily befallen them, and they could not avoid; and express their concern, that upon this account they should be deprived of the ordinance of the passover and as this confession shows an ingenuous disposition, so what follows, a pious, religious, and devotional frame of mind:

wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel? they speak very honourably of the ordinance of the passover, they call it "an offering of the Lord", the passover lamb being a slain sacrifice; and this offered to the Lord, by way of thanksgiving, for, and in commemoration of, their wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, and done in faith of Christ the passover, to be sacrificed for them; and it gave them much uneasiness that they were debarred by this occasional and unavoidable uncleanness, that was upon them, from keeping it; and what added to it was, that they could not observe it on the day which the Lord had appointed, and when the whole body of the children of Israel were employed in it; for it is no small pleasure to a good man to observe every ordinance of God in the manner and at the time he directs to, and his people in general are attending to the same; and the rather they were urgent in their expostulations, because it is said a, this was the seventh and last day of their pollution, when they should be clean at evening, and the passover was not to be eaten until the evening, and therefore so earnestly expostulate why they should be kept back from it.

a Maimon. in Misn. Pesachim, c. 7. sect. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 9:7. We are defiled by the dead body of a man — It is probable that the defilement mentioned here was occasioned by assisting at the burial of some person - a work both of necessity and mercy. This circumstance however gave rise to the ordinance delivered in Numbers 9:10-14, so that on particular occasions the passover might be twice celebrated:

1. At its regular time, the 14th of the first month;

2. An extra time, the 14th of the second month.

But the man who had no legal hinderance, and did not celebrate it on one or other of these times, was to be cut off from the people of God; and the reason given for this cutting off is, that he brought not the offering of God in his appointed season-therefore that man shall bear his sin, Numbers 9:13.

We have already seen, from the authority of St. Paul, that Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us; and that it was his sacrifice that was pointed out by the paschal lamb: on this, therefore, we may observe, that those who do not sooner or later eat the true Passover, and get the salvation procured by the sprinkling of his blood, shall be cut off from among those that shall enter into the rest prepared for the people of God; and for the same reason too; they bring not the offering of God in its appointed season, and therefore they shall bear their sin.