Numbers 19:14

This is the law for when someone dies in a tent. Everyone who goes into the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for 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 purify himself—this person defiles Yahweh's tabernacle. That person must be cut off from Israel because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him. He will remain unclean; his uncleanness will remain on him.

15Every open container with no cover becomes unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32These are the regulations for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,

Leviticus 21:11He must not go anywhere that a dead body is present and defile himself, even for his father or his mother.

Numbers 6:6During all the time that he separates himself to Yahweh, he must not come near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6There were certain men who became unclean by the body of a dead man. They could not keep the Passover on that day. They went before Moses and Aaron on that same day.

Ezekiel 39:12For seven months the house of Israel will bury them in order to purify the land.

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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