<p class="bodytext">Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders over thousands and the commanders over hundreds, approached Moses

<p class="bodytext">It happened that some men<n id="1" /> who were ceremonially defiled<n id="2" /> by the dead body of a man<n id="3" /> could not keep<n id="4" /> the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the heads of the family groups<n id="1" /> of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir<b>,b> the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses<n id="2" /> and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.<n id="3" />