Numbers 19:14

This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that 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

13Whosoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles 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 uncleanness is yet upon him.

15And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed goes from him, and is defiled therewith;

Leviticus 21:11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Numbers 6:6All the days that he separates himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

Numbers 9:6And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Ezekiel 39:12And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, 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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