Ezekiel 39:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

Common English Bible

¹² For seven months, the house of Israel will bury them in order to cleanse the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And the house of Israel will bury them, so that they may cleanse the land, for seven months

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:12 Cross References

Ezekiel 39:11

On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea; it shall block the path of the travelers, for there Gog and all his horde will be buried; it shall be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

Ezekiel 39:14

They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search.

Ezekiel 39:16

(A city Hamonah is there also.) Thus they shall cleanse the land.

Numbers 19:11

Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:14

“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.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you must bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you for possession.