Numbers 19:14

“This is the law 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.

World English Bible

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 doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; 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 law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;

Leviticus 21:11He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.

Numbers 6:6“‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD 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 Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Ezekiel 39:12“‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse 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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