Numbers 19:14

+ 19:14. Num 19:14 (Num 19:11-13, 19:14-16, 19:17-22) (#3.241): The law of uncleanness due to a dead body; the person is unclean for seven days “This is the Torah ·Teaching· when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

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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

13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and does not cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from himself, defiles Adonai’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel [God prevails]; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.

15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This is the Torah ·Teaching· of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;

Leviticus 21:11+ 21:11. Lev 21:11 (Lev 21:10-12) (#2b.146): T. When the Cohen Gadol ·High Priest· has the holy anointing oil poured on his head (in the time of his service) and is consecrated to wear the holy garments on shall not go into the place of a corpse / R. The Cohen Gadol ·High Priest· shall not go into the place of a corpse He must not go in to any dead body, + 21:11. Lev 21:11 (Lev 21:10-12) (#5.369): T. A Cohen Gadol ·High Priest· shall not become unclean even for relatives such as father or mother / R. The Cohen Gadol ·High Priest· must not defile himself for any relative or defile himself for his father, or for his mother.

Numbers 6:6+ 6:6. Num 6:6 (Num 6:2, 6:6-8) (#1.24): T. The Nazarite shall separate himself and not enter under any covering where there is a corpse and thus become defiled and unclean / R. The Nazarite must not be under the same roof as a corpse “‘All the days that he separates himself to Adonai he shall not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesac ·Passover· on that day, and they came before Moses [Drawn out] and before Aaron [Light-bringer] on that day.

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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