John Gill Commentary Numbers 9:10

"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah." — Numbers 9:10 (ASV)

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying
Not to the men only that came to Moses for advice, but to the body of the people; for the answer of the Lord concerned them all, and carried in it a rule to be observed in the like case, and others mentioned, in all succeeding ages, as long as the passover was an ordinance of God:

if any man of you ;
or "a man, a man", or any private man; for, according to the Jewish writers, this law only respects private persons, as those were who were the occasion of its being made:

or of your posterity ;
or "in your generations" ^F2 , or "ages"; which shows that this law respected future times, and not the present case only:

shall be unclean by reason of a dead body ;
see (Numbers 9:6) ; Maimonides

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``or that has an issue, or a leprous person:'' or [be] in a journey afar off ;
which, according to Ben Gersom, was fifteen miles; so in the Misnah ^F5 , and the commentators on it: yet he shall keep the passover of the Lord ;
not the first, but second, according to the directions given in (Numbers 9:11–14) .

FOOTNOTES:

• F2: (Mkytrdl) "generationibus vestris", Pagninus, Montanus; "in aetatibus vestris", Drusius.
• F5: Pesachim, c. 9. sect. 2. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.