Numbers 19:14

New International Reader's Version

“Here is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent. Anyone who enters the tent will be ‘unclean’ for seven days. Anyone in the tent will also be ‘unclean’ for seven days.

Cross References

Ezekiel 39:12

“ ‘ “It will take seven months for the Israelites to bury the bodies. They will do this to make the land ‘clean’ again.

Ezekiel 44:26

After he is pure and ‘clean’ again, he must wait seven days.

Leviticus 14:54

These are the rules for skin diseases. They apply to sores.

Leviticus 15:32

These are the rules for a man who has liquid waste flowing out of his body. They apply to a man made “unclean” by semen that flows from his body.

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron. Tell them, ‘A priest must not make himself “unclean” by going near the dead body of any of his people.

Leviticus 21:11

He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself “unclean,” even if his father or mother dies.

Numbers 19:13

Anyone who touches a dead person’s body and does not make themselves pure and ‘clean’ makes my holy tent ‘unclean.’ They must be separated from Israel. The special water has not been sprinkled on them. So they are ‘unclean.’ And they remain ‘unclean.’

Numbers 19:15

And anything in it that is open and has no lid will be ‘unclean.’

Numbers 31:20

Make all your clothes pure and ‘clean.’ Everything made out of leather, goat hair or wood must be made pure and ‘clean.’ ”

Numbers 5:2

“Tell the Israelites that certain people must be sent away from the camp. Command them to send away anyone who has a skin disease. They must send away all those who have liquid waste coming from their bodies. And they must send away those who are ‘unclean’ because they have touched a dead body.

Numbers 6:6

“ ‘And they must not go near a dead body during that whole time.

Numbers 6:9

“ ‘Suppose someone dies suddenly in front of them. That makes the hair they have set apart to the Lord “unclean.” So they must shave their heads on the day they will be made “clean.” That is the seventh day.

Numbers 9:6

But some of them couldn’t celebrate the Passover Feast on that day. That’s because they weren’t “clean.” They had gone near a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day.