Numbers 19:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Anyone in the open field who touches a person slain by the sword, or who died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If anyone in the field will have touched the corpse of a man, who was killed or who died on his own, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean for seven days.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:16 Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out thence, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:26

After he is defiled, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.

Leviticus 21:1

And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

Numbers 19:11

“He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days;

Numbers 19:15

And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean.

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.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one having a discharge, and every one that is unclean through contact with the dead;

Numbers 6:6

“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.”