Numbers 19:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:26

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

Leviticus 21:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: “No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,

Numbers 19:11

Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:15

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

Numbers 31:19

Camp outside the camp seven days, whoever of you has killed any person or touched a corpse; purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third and on the seventh day.

Numbers 5:2

“Command the Israelites to put out of the camp everyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with a corpse;

Numbers 6:6

“All the days that they separate themselves to the Lord they shall not go near a corpse.

Numbers 9:6

Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of uncleanness.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”