Numbers 9:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷ and said to him, ‘Although we are unclean through touching a corpse, why must we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?’ ⁸ Moses spoke to them, ‘Wait, so that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.’

⁹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: