Numbers 19:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you touch the body of someone who was killed or who died of old age, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, you will be unclean for seven days.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Leave the city of Babylon! Don't touch anything filthy. Wash yourselves. Be ready to carry back everything sacred that belongs to the LORD.

Ezekiel 44:26

If a priest touches a dead body, he is unclean and must go through a ceremony to make himself clean. Then seven days later,

Leviticus 21:1

The LORD gave Moses these instructions for Aaron's sons, the priests: Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So don't go near a dead relative,

Numbers 19:11

If you touch a dead body, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:15

Any open jar in the tent is unclean.

Numbers 31:19

Then Moses said to the soldiers, “If you killed anyone or touched a dead body, you are unclean and have to stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third and seventh days, you must go through a ceremony to make yourselves and your captives clean.

Numbers 5:2

to say to the people of Israel, “Put out of the camp everyone who has leprosy or a bodily discharge or who has touched a dead body. Now that I live among my people, their camp must be kept clean.”

Numbers 6:6

During the time that you are a Nazirite, you must never go close to a dead body,

Numbers 9:6

Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the LORD, and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,

Matthew 23:27

You Pharisees and teachers are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You're like tombs that have been whitewashed. On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth.

Luke 11:44

But you are in for trouble! You are like unmarked graves that people walk on without even knowing it.