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Numbers 19:16

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“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.

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Numbers 19:16 in other translations

And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:16 · American Standard Version

Numbers 19:16 in context

  1. 14“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.
  2. 15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
  3. 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.
  4. 17“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.
  5. 18A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.