Ezekiel 39:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

Cross References

Ezekiel 39:11

“On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea; it will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried; it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

Ezekiel 39:14

They will set apart men to pass through the land continually and bury those remaining upon the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will make their search.

Ezekiel 39:16

(A city Hamonah is there also.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Numbers 19:11

“He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days;

Numbers 19:14

“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.