Numbers 19:14

This is the law of a man who dies in a tent. All who enter into his tent, and all the vessels which are there, shall be polluted for seven days.

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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

13Anyone who will have touched the dead body of a human life, and who has not been sprinkled with this mixture, pollutes the tabernacle of the Lord, and he shall perish out of Israel. For not having been sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his filth shall remain upon him.

15The vessel that has no cover or binding over it shall be unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him who undergoes a flow of seed, or who is polluted by sexual intercourse,

Leviticus 21:11And he shall not enter to any dead body whatsoever; likewise, not even by his father or mother shall he be contaminated.

Numbers 6:6During all the time of his consecration, he shall not enter because of a death,

Numbers 9:6But behold, certain ones, who were not able to observe the Passover on that day, being unclean because of the life of a man, approaching Moses and Aaron,

Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel will bury them, so that they may cleanse the land, for seven months.

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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