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Numbers 9:8-10
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Numbers 9:8-10
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8 So Moses said to them, “Remain[a] here and I will hear[b] what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 10 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If any[c] of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may[d] observe the Passover to the Lord.
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- Numbers 9:8 tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.
- Numbers 9:8 tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”
- Numbers 9:10 tn This sense is conveyed by the repetition of “man”—“if a man, a man becomes unclean.”
- 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.
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