Numbers 19:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Num 31:19 : 19 And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.
  • Matt 23:27 : 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] know it not.
  • Num 19:11 : 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
  • Ezek 39:11-16 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord Jehovah. 14 And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land, and, with them that pass through, those that bury them that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 And they that pass through the land shall pass through; and when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 19:11-15
    5 verses
    91%

    11He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

    12the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on 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.

    13Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

    14This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

    15And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

  • Num 19:17-22
    6 verses
    82%

    17And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; 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 the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

    19and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

    20But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

    21And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them: and he that sprinkleth the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that toucheth the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.

    22And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

  • Lev 22:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

    5or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

    6the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.

  • Num 31:19
    80%

    19And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.

  • Lev 15:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

    11And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    24And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;

    25And whosoever beareth [aught] of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:32
    80%

    32And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.

  • Lev 15:27
    80%

    27And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 5:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guilty.

    3Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

  • Lev 15:7
    79%

    7And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:28
    79%

    28And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

  • Num 5:2
    78%

    2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead:

  • Lev 17:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

    16But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Lev 7:21
    78%

    21And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain unto Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 11:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.

    40And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 15:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

    22And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

    23And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 15:5
    77%

    5And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:35-37
    3 verses
    77%

    35And every thing whereupon [any part] of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

    36Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

    37And if [aught] of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

  • Lev 15:19
    77%

    19And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

  • Num 6:6
    77%

    6All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

  • Num 9:10
    76%

    10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.

  • Num 19:8
    76%

    8And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

  • Num 9:7
    76%

    7and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?

  • Ezek 44:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

    26And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

  • Lev 7:19
    75%

    19And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat thereof:

  • Hag 2:13
    75%

    13Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

  • Num 6:9
    75%

    9And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • Lev 15:13
    74%

    13And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

  • Lev 16:28
    74%

    28And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.