Numbers 9:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
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?”

Young's Literal Translation
and those men say unto him, ‘We are defiled by the body of a man; why are we withheld so as not to bring near the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?’

King James Bible
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?

Hebrew
and said
וַ֠יֹּאמְרוּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to [Moses],
אֵלָ֔יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

“We
אֲנַ֥חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

are unclean
טְמֵאִ֖ים (ṭə·mê·’îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2931: Unclean

because of a dead body,
אָדָ֑ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

but why
לָ֣מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should we be excluded
נִגָּרַ֗ע (nig·gā·ra‘)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 1639: To scrape off, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

from
לְבִלְתִּ֨י (lə·ḇil·tî)
Preposition-l
Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until

presenting
הַקְרִ֜ב (haq·riḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

the LORD’s
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

offering
קָרְבַּ֤ן (qā·rə·ban)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7133: Something brought near the altar, a sacrificial present

with
בְּת֖וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

the other Israelites
בְּנֵ֥י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

at the appointed time?”
בְּמֹ֣עֲד֔וֹ (bə·mō·‘ă·ḏōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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