Numbers 19:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ ‘Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, is unclean for seven days.

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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.

Numbers 19:16 Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of יהוה.

Ezekiel 44:26

“And after his cleansing, they count seven days for him,

Leviticus 21:1

And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: ‘No one is to be defiled for the dead among his people,

Numbers 19:11

‘He who touches the dead of any human being is unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:15

and every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean.

Numbers 31:19

“And you, camp outside the camp seven days. Whoever has slain any being, and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the children of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 6:6

‘All the days of his separation to יהוה  he does not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6

But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man, so that they were not able to perform the Passover on that day. So they came before Mosheh and Aharon that day,

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

Luke 11:44

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like the unseen tombs, and the men walking over them do not know.”