Numbers 19:14

This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

In Context

13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him. He s

15And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him who has an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goes from him, so that he is unclean thereby,

Leviticus 21:11neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother,

Numbers 6:6He shall not come near to a dead body all the days that he separates himself to LORD.

Numbers 9:6And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day,

Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel shall be burying them seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 19:12-22

11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his… Read the whole commentary →

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