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?
Numbers 9:7 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.7.KJV
This is a typical example of the law was made for man not man for the law.
Though they had been defiled by the dead, they could not be denied partaking in the sabbath…
The law was modified to accommodate this.
God is just.
Some say they had gone to bury the dead according to dakes.
So then why should they be denied partaking when they were doing their due. Somebody has to bury the death so if they did, why are they being punished.
And they were right and just and this God made provision for.
https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.7.KJV
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
Numbers 9:16 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.16.KJV
WAs it not this same fire 🔥 that burnt on the mountain whirls Moses kept thr flocks of his father in law.
That same fire burning 🔥 the bush yet the bush was not consumed.
Now that fire 🔥 dwelt upon this Tabernacle and yet it also was not consumed.
Indeed another dimension was revealed. It was fire 🔥 and 🌥 it was water 💦, a cloud 🌥.
And so it was always.
https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.16.KJV
And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
Numbers 9:19 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.19.KJV
Yieldedness, the lord was bringing them up in the way if the spirit
https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.19.KJV
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: wether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers 9:21 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.21.KJV
Tonging, whether it was by day or by night 🌃 they were ever so yielded.
I knew there was more to the divine hand of God upon these ones. The supernatural victories, the protection.
They couldn’t be cursed or any harm brought upon them.
They lived a fasted life, eating the Bread from heaven – one way food whcih it itself was a Form of fast, à discipline of the flesh https://bible.com/bible/1/num.9.21.KJV