Numbers 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: Every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
15And every open vessel, on which there is not a closely fitting cover, is unclean.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
Leviticus 21:11Neither shall he go in to any dead body; even on his father, and on his mother shall he not defile himself.
Numbers 6:6All the days of his abstinence in honor of the Lord shall he not come near any dead body.
Numbers 9:6But there were certain men, who had been defiled by the dead body of a man, and they could not prepare the passover-lamb on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel shall be burying them, in order to cleanse the land, during 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 →