Verse 12

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:23 : 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he who is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • Ezek 39:14 : 14 And they shall appoint men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury the travelers that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
  • Ezek 39:16 : 16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 And whoever touches someone who is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.