Numbers 19:14
And this is the law; if a man die in a house, everyone that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
15And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:32This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
Leviticus 21:11neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.
Numbers 6:6all the days of his vow to the Lord: he shall not come nigh to any dead body,
Numbers 9:6And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of 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 →