It will take seven months for the family of Israel to bury them. They must do this to make the land pure.
Numbers 19:14 - Easy To Read Version “This is the rule about people who die in their tents. If a person dies in his tent, then everyone in the tent will be unclean. [258] They will be unclean for seven days. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. American Standard Version (1901) This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Common English Bible This is the instruction: When anyone dies in a tent, all who go into the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days. Catholic Public Domain Version This is the law of a man who dies in a tent. All who enter into his tent, and all the vessels which are there, shall be polluted for seven days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there shall be unclean seven days. |
It will take seven months for the family of Israel to bury them. They must do this to make the land pure.
\{This will make the priest unclean.\} After the priest has been made clean, he must wait seven days.
Those are the rules for people with a discharge. [258] Those rules are for men who become unclean [259] from a flow of semen. [260]
The Lord said to Moses, “Tell these things to Aaron’s sons, the priests: A priest must not make himself unclean [371] by touching a dead person.
He must not make himself unclean [378] {by touching a dead body}. He must not go near a dead body, even if it is his own father or mother.
If a person touches a dead body, then that person is unclean. If that person stays unclean and then goes to the Holy Tent, [257] then the Holy Tent becomes unclean. So that person must be separated from the people of Israel. If the special water is not thrown on an unclean person, then that person will stay unclean.
You must wash all of your clothes. You must wash anything made with leather, wool, or wood. You must become pure.”
“I command the people of Israel to keep their camp free from sickness and disease. Tell the people to send away from the camp any person who has a bad skin disease. [78] Tell them to send away from the camp any person who has a discharge. [79] And tell them to send away from their camp any person who has touched a dead body.
“A Nazirite [87] must not go near a dead body during that special time of separation. Why? Because that person has given himself fully to the Lord.
“It might happen that the Nazirite [88] is with another person who dies suddenly. {If the Nazirite touches this dead man, the Nazirite will become unclean. [89] } If that happens, then the Nazirite must shave the hair from his head. (That hair was part of his special promise.) He must cut his hair on the seventh day, because on that day he is made clean. [90]
But some of the people could not celebrate Passover [139] that day. They were unclean [140] because they had touched a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day.