Verse 11

Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 5:2 : 2 Command the Israelites to send every person who has a skin disease, every person with a discharge, and anyone who is ceremonially unclean because of contact with a dead body out of the camp.
  • Num 31:19 : 19 You must remain outside the camp for seven days. Anyone who has killed someone or touched a dead body must purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives.
  • Lev 21:1 : 1 The LORD said to Moses, 'Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them: A priest shall not defile himself by coming into contact with a dead person among his people.
  • Lev 21:11 : 11 He must not go near any dead body or make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother.
  • Num 9:6 : 6 There were some men who were unclean because of contact with a dead body, and they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,
  • Num 9:10 : 10 Speak to the people of Israel and say: If any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of contact with a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who was killed with a sword, a dead body, a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean for seven days.
  • Lam 4:14 : 14 They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
  • Hag 2:13 : 13 Then Haggai said, 'If someone defiled by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become defiled?' The priests answered, 'It does become defiled.'
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people, because all sinned.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God?
  • Lev 11:31 : 31 These are the unclean creatures that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening.