Numbers 19:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.

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  • Num 31:19 : 19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
  • Matt 23:27 : 27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.
  • Num 19:11 : 11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:
  • Ezek 39:11-16 : 11 And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog. 12 And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean. 13 And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord. 14 And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search. 15 And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man's bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 19:11-15
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    11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

    12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.

    13 Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.

    14 This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.

    15 And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.

  • Num 19:17-22
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    82%

    17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

    18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

    19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.

    20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

    21 This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

    22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 22:4-6
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    81%

    4 No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

    5 Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;

    6 Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;

  • Num 31:19
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    19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.

  • Lev 15:10-11
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    10 And anyone touching anything which was under him will be unclean till the evening; anyone taking up any of these things is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

    11 And anyone on whom the unclean man puts his hands, without washing them in water, is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:24-25
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    24 By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:

    25 Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:32
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    32 The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean.

  • Lev 15:27
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    27 And anyone touching these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 5:2-3
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    79%

    2 If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

    3 Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:

  • Lev 15:7
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    7 And anyone touching the flesh of the unclean man is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:28
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    28 Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

  • Num 5:2
    78%

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

  • Lev 17:15-16
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    78%

    15 And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

    16 But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

  • Lev 7:21
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    21 And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 11:39-40
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    78%

    39 And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

    40 And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 15:21-23
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    77%

    21 And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

    22 And anyone touching anything on which she has been seated will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

    23 Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 15:5
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    5 And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:35-37
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    77%

    35 Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

    36 But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.

    37 If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;

  • Lev 15:19
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    19 And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening.

  • Num 6:6
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    6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

  • Num 9:10
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    10 Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

  • Num 19:8
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    8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Num 9:7
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    7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?

  • Ezek 44:25-26
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    25 They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.

    26 And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.

  • Lev 7:19
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    19 And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:

  • Hag 2:13
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    13 Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.

  • Num 6:9
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    9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

  • Lev 15:13
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    13 And when a man who has a flow from his body is made clean from it, he is to take seven days to make himself clean, washing his clothing and bathing his body in flowing water, and then he will be clean.

  • Lev 16:28
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    28 And the man by whom they are burned is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water, and then he may come back to the tent-circle.