Numbers 19:16

And everyone on the face of the field who comes against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean [for] seven days;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

In Context

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

17and for the unclean person they have taken from the ashes of the burning of the [cow], and he has put running water over it into a vessel;

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:1And YHWH says to Moses, “Speak to the priests, sons of Aaron, and you have said to them: No one defiles himself for a [dead] person among his people,

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

Numbers 19:11He who is coming against the dead body of any man is unclean [for] seven days;

Ezekiel 39:11And it has come to pass in that day, I give a place to Gog there—a grave in Israel, the valley of those passing by, east of the sea, and it is stopping those passing by, and they have buried there Gog, and all his multitude, and have cried, O valley of the multitude of Gog!

Ezekiel 39:16And also the name of the city [is] The Multitude; and they have cleansed the land.

Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like to whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;

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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