Numbers 19:16

New International Version

“Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the articles of the Lord’s house.

Ezekiel 44:26

After he is cleansed, he must wait seven days.

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

Numbers 19:11

“Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:15

and every open container without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.

Numbers 31:19

“Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.

Numbers 6:6

“ ‘Throughout the period of their dedication to the Lord, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body.

Numbers 9:6

But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

Matthew 23:27

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

Luke 11:44

“Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”