Numbers 19:16

English Standard Version 2016

Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Cross References

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.

Numbers 31:19

Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

Numbers 19:11

“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:15

And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

Leviticus 21:1

And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,

Numbers 5:2

“Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.

Numbers 6:6

“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Ezekiel 44:26

After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.