Numbers 19:11
Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
Note man: Heb. soul of man
“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- toucheth the dead
- He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, (Le 11:12, 27, 39;) but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!
- Numbers 19:16; Numbers 5:2; Numbers 9:6, 10; Numbers 31:19; Leviticus 11:31; Leviticus 21:1, 11; Lamentations 4:14; Haggai 2:13; Romans 5:12; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 2:1; Hebrews 9:14