and those men said to him, “We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be kept from presenting Yahweh’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”
In context
5They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 6Now there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse and could not keep the Passover on that day. So they came before Moses and Aaron that same day, 7and those men said to him, “We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be kept from presenting Yahweh’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” 8Moses said to them, “Wait, and I will hear what Yahweh commands concerning you.” 9Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
