Numbers 19:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

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  • Num 31:19 : 19 Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
  • Matt 23:27 : 27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
  • Num 19:11 : 11 Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
  • Ezek 39:11-16 : 11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. 12 For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the Sovereign LORD. 14 They will designate men to scout continually through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months. 15 When the scouts survey the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it in the valley of Hamon-Gog. 16 (A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

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  • Num 19:11-15
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    91%

    11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    12He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

    14“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    15And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.

  • Num 19:17-22
    6 verses
    82%

    17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

    18Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

    19And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

    21“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Lev 22:4-6
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    81%

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Num 31:19
    80%

    19Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

  • Lev 15:10-11
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    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 11:24-25
    2 verses
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    24Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:32
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    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Lev 15:27
    80%

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 5:2-3
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    79%

    2Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

    3or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

  • Lev 15:7
    79%

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 11:28
    79%

    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

  • Num 5:2
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    2“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

  • Lev 17:15-16
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    78%

    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

  • Lev 7:21
    78%

    21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Lev 11:39-40
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    78%

    39Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

    40One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 15:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    22Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    23If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,

  • Lev 15:5
    77%

    5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 11:35-37
    3 verses
    77%

    35Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.

    36However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

    37Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,

  • Lev 15:19
    77%

    19Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

  • Num 6:6
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    6“‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he must not contact a dead body.

  • Num 9:10
    76%

    10“Tell the Israelites,‘If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the LORD.

  • Num 19:8
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    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  • Num 9:7
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    7And those men said to him,“We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

  • Ezek 44:25-26
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    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

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    19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

  • Hag 2:13
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    13Then Haggai asked,“If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered,“It will be unclean.”

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    13Purity Regulations for Male Bodily Discharges“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

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    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.