Numbers 19:22
“If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 7:19“Meat that touches something that God considers to be impure must not be eaten; it must be completely burned. Anyone who has performed the rituals to become acceptable to God is allowed to eat other meat which has been offered as a sacrifice.
Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches that person’s bed must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.
Leviticus 15:7“Anyone who touches such a man must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.
Leviticus 15:10and anyone who touches the seat or saddle that he was sitting on also should not be touched until that evening. And anyone who picks up the seat or saddle must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.
Leviticus 15:21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch that person until that evening.
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 →