Text: Numbers 9:1
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 5:2
Subject: impurity and Passover exclusion
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Numbers 5:2 commands the removal from camp of anyone who is unclean through skin disease, discharge, or corpse contact. Numbers 9:6-7 reveals the practical consequence of this rule: certain men who were unclean through corpse contamination could not celebrate the Passover at the appointed time and came to Moses asking, "Why should we be kept from presenting the LORD's offering at its appointed time?" This internal Numbers cross-reference shows the purity exclusion of chapter 5 creating a specific pastoral problem that the delayed-Passover provision of chapter 9 was designed to solve, demonstrating how different laws within Numbers interact and necessitate further legislation.