Numbers 19:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Anyone 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.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Numbers 19:16 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“Anyone 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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And whosoever toucheth one that 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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 19:16 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 21:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
- Numbers 5:2“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
- Numbers 6:6Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body.
- Numbers 9:6But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
- Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 31:19All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
- Ezekiel 39:11And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
- Ezekiel 39:12For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
- Ezekiel 39:16(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
- Ezekiel 44:26and after he is cleansed, he must count off seven days for himself.
- Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
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