Numbers 19:11-22

Laws for Purification

11 w "Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days. 12 He x shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, y defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, z and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

14 "This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every a open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean. 16 b Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a c grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 For the unclean they shall take d some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh 1 water shall be added in a vessel. 18 Then a clean person shall take e hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean f on the third day and on the seventh day. g Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall h wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.

20 "If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, i that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. 22 And j whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 19:16
    Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
    Numbers 5:2
    Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.
    Numbers 9:6
    And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
    Numbers 9:10
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.
    Numbers 31:19
    Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 31:19
    Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 19:20
    If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
    Leviticus 15:31
    "Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 30:33
    Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.'
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 31:20
    You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood.
    Leviticus 11:32
    And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 19:11
    Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 23:27
    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
    Luke 11:44
    Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.
  8. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:13
    For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 12:22
    Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
  10. Cross References
    Numbers 19:12
    He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 14:9
    And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
  12. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:25
    And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 30:33
    Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 19:11
    Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
    Haggai 2:13
    Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean.
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