Numbers 19:16

KJV

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.

— Numbers 19:16, King James Version
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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 …

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Other Translations

ASV

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.

YLT

`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;

BBE

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.

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