Seven months shall the house of Yisra'el be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
Numbers 19:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean 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. |
Seven months shall the house of Yisra'el be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
The LORD said to Moshe, *Speak to the Kohanim, the sons of Aharon, and say to them, 'A Kohen shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tent of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.
*Command the children of Yisra'el that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
*All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.
*If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesach on that day, and they came before Moshe and before Aharon on that day.