Translations
and said to him, 'We are unclean through contact with a human corpse. Why should we be barred from presenting Yahweh's offering at its appointed time among the children of Israel?'
and said to him, 'We are tamei through contact with a human corpse. Why should we be kept back from bringing YHWH's offering at its appointed time among the children of Yisra'el?'
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

