Ezekiel 39:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.”
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“For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the house of Israel have buried them--in order to cleanse the land--seven months.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 39:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:14This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
- Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Deuteronomy 21:23you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Ezekiel 39:14And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
- Ezekiel 39:16(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).