Numbers 19:16

And whoever toucheth one who is slain with the sword upon the face of the field, or a dead body, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Targum Onkelos

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 earthen vessel which hath not a covering fastened upon it round about is unclean.

17And for the unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, and put spring water upon it in a vessel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:1And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no one be defiled among his people on account of the dead:

Numbers 6:6All the days of his vow before the Lord; he shall come near no dead person:

Numbers 19:11Whosoever toucheth the dead of any of mankind shall be unclean seven days.

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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