⁶ And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

² They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

¹⁶ And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.

¹¹ Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

² Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

²⁸ So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

¹⁸ And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

²⁶ And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

¹⁹ Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

⁵ So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

³³ And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.

⁶ All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

⁷ He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

¹¹ And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

¹¹ He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;