Numbers 9:7 - Common English BibleThese persons said to him, “Although we are unclean from contact with a human corpse, why must we be prohibited from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the rest of the Israelites?” See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769and 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? See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic EditionThose men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites? See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel? See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Versionsaid to them: "We are unclean because of the life of a man. Why have we been cheated, in that we are not permitted to offer, at its proper time, the oblation to the Lord among the sons of Israel?" See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 versionSaid to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel? See the chapter |