Numbers 19:14

This, is the law—When, a human being, shall die in a tent, every one who goeth into the tent and every one who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

13Whosoever toucheth the dead the person of the human being that dieth and doth not cleanse himself from sin, the habitation of Yahweh, hath he made unclean; that person therefore shall be cut off out of Israel,—because, the water of separation, was not dashed upon him, unclean, shall he be, his uncleanness is yet upon him.

15And, in the case of every open vessel, on which no cover is fastened, unclean, it is.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This, is the law—Of him that hath a flux,—And of him from whom goeth an outflow of seed, making unclean thereby;

Leviticus 21:11And, unto no persons of the dead, shall he go in,—For his father or for his mother, shall he not make himself unclean;

Numbers 6:6All the days for which he hath separated himself unto Yahweh to no dead person, shall he go in.

Numbers 9:6But so it was that there were, certain men who had become unclean by a dead person, and could not keep the passover on that day,—therefore came they near before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Ezekiel 39:12So shall the house of Israel bury them (that they may cleanse the land) —seven months;

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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