Numbers 19:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ If anyone touches a dead body, then that person will be unclean for seven days. This is true if the dead body is out in the field or if the person was killed in war. Also, if anyone touches the bones from a dead person then that person is unclean.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

You people should leave Babylon!\par Leave that place!\par \{Priests,\} you carry the things\par that are used in worship.\par So make yourselves pure.\par Don’t touch anything that is not pure.\par

Ezekiel 44:26

\{This will make the priest unclean.\} After the priest has been made clean, he must wait seven days.

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Tell these things to Aaron’s sons, the priests: A priest must not make himself unclean [371] by touching a dead person.

Numbers 19:11

If someone touches a dead person’s body, then he will be unclean [256] for seven days.

Numbers 19:15

And every jar or pot without a lid becomes unclean.

Numbers 31:19

And then, all of you men who killed other people must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must stay outside the camp even if you just touched a dead body. On the third day, you and your prisoners must make yourselves pure. You must do the same thing again on the seventh day.

Numbers 5:2

“I command the people of Israel to keep their camp free from sickness and disease. Tell the people to send away from the camp any person who has a bad skin disease. [78] Tell them to send away from the camp any person who has a discharge. [79] And tell them to send away from their camp any person who has touched a dead body.

Numbers 6:6

“A Nazirite [87] must not go near a dead body during that special time of separation. Why? Because that person has given himself fully to the Lord.

Numbers 9:6

But some of the people could not celebrate Passover [139] that day. They were unclean [140] because they had touched a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day.

Matthew 23:27

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [347]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [348]} You are like tombs {\cf2\super [349]} that are painted white. The outside of those tombs looks fine. But inside, the tombs are full of the bones of dead people. And all kinds of unclean things are inside there.

Luke 11:44

It will be bad for you, because you are like hidden graves. People walk on them without knowing it.”