Numbers 19:16

World English Bible (2000)

"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:19 : 19 "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
  • Matt 23:27 : 27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
  • Num 19:11 : 11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
  • Ezek 39:11-16 : 11 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. 12 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. 14 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. 16 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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  • Num 19:11-15
    5 verses
    91%

    11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

    12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

    13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

    14 "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

    15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

  • Num 19:17-22
    6 verses
    82%

    17 "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

    18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

    19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

    20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

    21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

    22 "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."

  • Lev 22:4-6
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    81%

    4 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

    5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

  • Num 31:19
    80%

    19 "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

  • Lev 15:10-11
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    80%

    10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    11 "'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    24 "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

    25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:32
    80%

    32 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

  • Lev 15:27
    80%

    27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 5:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 "'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

    3 "'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

  • Lev 15:7
    79%

    7 "'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:28
    79%

    28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

  • Num 5:2
    78%

    2 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

  • Lev 17:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

    16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • Lev 7:21
    78%

    21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Lev 11:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39 "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 15:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    23 If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 15:5
    77%

    5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:35-37
    3 verses
    77%

    35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

    36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

    37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

  • Lev 15:19
    77%

    19 "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 6:6
    77%

    6 "'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

  • Num 9:10
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    10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

  • Num 19:8
    76%

    8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 9:7
    76%

    7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"

  • Ezek 44:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

    26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

  • Lev 7:19
    75%

    19 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

  • Hag 2:13
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    13 Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."

  • Num 6:9
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    9 "'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.

  • Lev 15:13
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    13 "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

  • Lev 16:28
    74%

    28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.