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10 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If any[a] of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may[b] observe the Passover to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:10 tn This sense is conveyed by the repetition of “man”—“if a man, a man becomes unclean.”
  2. Numbers 9:10 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive functions as the equivalent of an imperfect tense. In the apodosis of this conditional sentence, the permission nuance fits well.