Numbers 19:14

This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who is coming into the tent and all that [is] in the tent are unclean [for] seven days;

Literal Standard Version

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

13Anyone who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dies, and does not cleanse himself, he has defiled the Dwelling Place of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he is unclean; his uncleanness [is] still on him.

15and every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it is unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This [is] the law of him who has the discharging, and of him whose seed [from] intercourse goes out from him, to become unclean with it,

Leviticus 21:11nor does he come beside any dead person; he does not defile himself for his father and for his mother;

Numbers 6:6All [the] days of his keeping separate to YHWH, he does not go near a dead person;

Numbers 9:6And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the Passover on that day, and they come near before Moses and before Aaron on that day,

Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel has buried them—in order to cleanse the land—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 →

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