Haggai 2:13
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13 And Haggai said, “If one who is (A)unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?”
So the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.”
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Numbers 19:11-22
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11 (A)‘He who touches the dead [a]body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. 12 (B)He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and (C)does not purify himself, (D)defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because (E)the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; (F)his uncleanness is still on him.
14 ‘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 seven days; 15 and every (G)open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. 16 (H)Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 ‘And for an unclean person they shall take some of the (I)ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and [b]running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 18 A clean person shall take (J)hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; (K)and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.
20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has (L)defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 21 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 22 (M)Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and (N)the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.’ ”
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- Numbers 19:11 Lit. soul of man
- Numbers 19:17 Lit. living
Numbers 9:6-10
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6 Now there were certain men who were (A)defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; (B)and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. 7 And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”
8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that (C)I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your [a]posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover.
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- Numbers 9:10 descendants
Numbers 5:2-3
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2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every (A)leper, everyone who has a (B)discharge, and whoever becomes (C)defiled [a]by a corpse. 3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps (D)in the midst of which I dwell.”
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Leviticus 22:4-6
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4 ‘Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a (A)leper or has (B)a discharge, shall not eat the holy offerings (C)until he is clean. And (D)whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or (E)a man who has had an emission of semen, 5 or (F)whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or (G)any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be— 6 the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he (H)washes his body with water.
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