Numbers 19:16

New Living Translation

And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Get out! Get out and leave your captivity, where everything you touch is unclean. Get out of there and purify yourselves, you who carry home the sacred objects of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:26

Even then, he can return to his Temple duties only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for seven days.

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Give the following instructions to the priests, the descendants of Aaron. “A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean by touching the dead body of a relative.

Numbers 19:11

“All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:15

Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.

Numbers 31:19

And all of you who have killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must purify yourselves and your captives on the third and seventh days.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone who has a skin disease or a discharge, or who has become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person.

Numbers 6:6

And they must not go near a dead body during the entire period of their vow to the Lord.

Numbers 9:6

But some of the men had been ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, so they could not celebrate the Passover that day. They came to Moses and Aaron that day

Matthew 23:27

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity.

Luke 11:44

Yes, what sorrow awaits you! For you are like hidden graves in a field. People walk over them without knowing the corruption they are stepping on.”