Numbers 19:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶If anyone touches someone who was killed by a sword or who died a natural death, he is unclean. If he touches a human bone or a grave, he is unclean. He will be unclean for seven days.

¹⁷“So you must use the ashes from the burnt offering to make that person clean again. Pour fresh water over the ashes into a jar. ¹⁸A clean person must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. Then he must sprinkle it over the tent and its objects. And he must sprinkle the people who were there. He must sprinkle anyone who touched a bone or the body of someone who was killed. He must sprinkle anyone who touched a dead person or a grave.

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Numbers 19:16-18

King James Version

¹⁶And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

¹⁷And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

¹⁸And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

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Numbers 19:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶^(A)Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a ^(B)grave, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷For the unclean they shall take ^(C)some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh^[a] water shall be added in a vessel. ¹⁸Then a clean person shall take ^(D)hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.

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Numbers 19:17 Hebrew living

Numbers 19:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶“Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death,^(A) or anyone who touches a human bone^(B) or a grave,^(C) will be unclean for seven days.^(D)

¹⁷“For the unclean person, put some ashes^(E) from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water^(F) over them. ¹⁸Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop,^(G) dip it in the water and sprinkle^(H) the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave^(I) or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.