Translations and commentaries in English vary on what this means. Some suggest he was forcibly restrained (ie. some kind of imprisonment), whilst others suggest that he had some kind of religious obligation that was keeping him there, or perhaps he was ritually unclean so could not perform whatever religious ceremony he had intended to do, so was waiting for the time when he would have been considered clean again.
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