Ezekiel 39:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Ezekiel 39:12 Cross References

Ezekiel 39:11

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea: and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

Ezekiel 39:14

And they shall sever out men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land to bury them that pass through, that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

Ezekiel 39:16

And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

Numbers 19:14

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.

Numbers 19:16

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.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.