Numbers 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a cherev in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a kever, shall be tamei seven days.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is tamei.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:1And Hashem said unto Moshe, Speak unto the kohanim the Bnei Aharon, and say unto them, There shall none be made tamei for the dead among his people;
Numbers 6:6Kol yemei of his nezer (abstinence) unto Hashem he shall go not near nefesh met (dead body).
Numbers 19:11He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be tamei shivat yamim.
Ezekiel 39:11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a makom kever (burial place) there in Yisroel — the valley of those who pass by, east of the yam; and it shall block the path of the passersby; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it Gey Hamon Gog.
Ezekiel 39:16And also the shem of the Ir shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they make ha'aretz tahor.
Matthew 23:27Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you are like kevarim (graves) having been whitewashed, which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist (ostensibly) shein (beautiful), but on the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim (dead ones) and every trayfnyak.
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 →