Numbers 19:14
This is the law: when a man dieth in a tent, every one that cometh into the tent, and every thing that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
15And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, 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 6:6All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.
Numbers 9:6But there were certain men, who were unclean by 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 seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, 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 →