Numbers 19:16
And whosoever toucheth in the open field one that hath been slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, 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 21:1And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, None [of them] shall defile himself on the dead, among his people;
Numbers 6:6All the days of his abstinence in honor of the Lord shall he not come near any dead body.
Numbers 19:11He that toucheth the dead body of any human person shall be unclean seven days.
Ezekiel 39:11And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there for a grave in Israel, the valley where people pass over to the east of the sea; and it shall stop the passengers [from passing]: and they shall bury there Gog and all his multitude, and they shall call it The valley of the multitude of Gog.
Ezekiel 39:16And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. 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 →