The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Numbers 19:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. American Standard Version (1901) This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Common English Bible This is the instruction: When anyone dies in a tent, all who go into the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days. Catholic Public Domain Version This is the law of a man who dies in a tent. All who enter into his tent, and all the vessels which are there, shall be polluted for seven days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there shall be unclean seven days. |
The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.
‘This is the law for any skin disease or mildew, for a scaly outbreak,
This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;
The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood.’
‘Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the Lord.
‘If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.
But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day