Numbers 19:14

The following regulation applies when a person dies in a tent. Everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean 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

13If you touch a dead body and don't purify yourself, you make the Tabernacle of the Lord unclean and must be expelled from Israel. You are still unclean because the water of purification hasn't been sprinkled on you, and your uncleanness remains.

15Any open container there that doesn't have a closed lid is unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32These are the regulations regarding a man who has a discharge, a man who has a release of semen that makes him unclean,

Leviticus 21:11He is not to go near any dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even if it is for his own father or mother.

Numbers 6:6During this time of dedication to the Lord they must not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6However, there were some men who were unclean because they had been in contact with a dead body, so they could not keep the Passover on that day. They went to see Moses and Aaron the same day,

Ezekiel 39:12It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury them in order to make the country clean.

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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