Numbers 19:14

This is the law of a mall that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven days.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

13Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.

15The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation.

Leviticus 21:11Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:

Numbers 6:6All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,

Numbers 9:6But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a men, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,

Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to 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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