Numbers 19:11-22
1599 Geneva Bible
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man, shall be unclean even seven days.
12 He shall purify himself [a]therewith the third day, and the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the corpse of any man that is dead, and purgeth not himself, defileth the Tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be [b]cut off from Israel, because the sprinkling water was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain still upon him.
14 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.
15 And all the vessels that be open, which have no [c]covering fastened upon them, shall be unclean.
16 Also whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the field, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 Therefore for an unclean person, they shall take of the burnt ashes of the [d]sin offering, and [e]pure water shall be put thereto in a vessel.
18 And a [f]clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and on the persons that were therein, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean the third day, and the seventh day, and he shall purify himself the seventh day, and [g]wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 But the man that is unclean, and purifieth not himself, that person shall be cut off from among the Congregation, because he hath defiled the Sanctuary of the Lord: and the sprinkling water hath not been sprinkled upon him: therefore shall he be unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual law unto them, that he that sprinkleth the sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes: also he that toucheth the sprinkling water, shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean: and the person that toucheth [h]him, shall be unclean until the even.
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- Numbers 19:12 With the sprinkling water.
- Numbers 19:13 So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy people. But as a polluted and excommunicated person.
- Numbers 19:15 Hebrew, a covering of cloth.
- Numbers 19:17 Of the red cow burnt for sin.
- Numbers 19:17 Water of the fountain or river.
- Numbers 19:18 One of the priests which is clean.
- Numbers 19:19 Because he had been among them that were unclean: or, else had touched the water, as verse 21.
- Numbers 19:22 That is, unclean.
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