Numbers 19:16
And 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.
Context
This verse from Numbers Chapter 19 connects to 6 cross-references. The ritual of the red heifer provides a way to purify those who have become unclean through contact with a corpse: a perfect red heifer without defect is slaughtered, burned with cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet thread, and its ashes …
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.
`And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days;
And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
Cross References
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, …
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves …
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but …
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk …