Numbers 19:16
And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or one that dieth of himself, or a bone of a man, or a grave, 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 21:1And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;
Numbers 6:6All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.
Numbers 19:11He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days;
Ezekiel 39:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place fit for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezekiel 39:16And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they 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 →