Numbers 19:14
'This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one who is coming in unto the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, is unclean seven days;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:32'This [is] the law of him who hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth out from him, for uncleanness thereby,
Leviticus 21:11nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;
Numbers 6:6'All days of his keeping separate to Jehovah, near a dead person he doth not go;
Numbers 9:6And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,
Ezekiel 39:12And the house of Israel have buried them — in order to 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 →