‘ “For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Numbers 19:14 - New International Version (Anglicised) ‘This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it 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. |
‘ “For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,
The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: “A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the Lord’s tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.
and every open container without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.
Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.’
‘Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
‘ “Throughout the period of their dedication to the Lord, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body.
‘ “If someone dies suddenly in the Nazirite’s presence, thus defiling the hair that symbolises their dedication, they must shave their head on the seventh day – the day of their cleansing.
But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day