Text -- Numbers 9:10 (NET)

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

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 9:10

¹ tn This sense is conveyed by the repetition of “man” – “if a man, a man becomes unclean.”

² 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.