Bilangan 9:7-10

9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” 9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 9:10 “Tell the Israelites, ‘If any ³  of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may ⁴  observe the Passover to the Lord.

[9:8]  ¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

[9:8]  ² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”

[9:10]  ³ tn This sense is conveyed by the repetition of “man” – “if a man, a man becomes unclean.”

[9:10]  ⁴ 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.