Numbers 19:16

New English Translation

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items!

Ezekiel 44:26

After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses: “Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron – say to them, ‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

Numbers 19:11

“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:15

And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.

Numbers 31:19

“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

Numbers 6:6

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

Numbers 9:6

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”