Numbers 19:11 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 19:11

Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal to be devoured by the wild beasts.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

To afford the necessary supply of the cleansing mixture, the Jewish writers say that a red heifer was sacrificed every year, and that the ashes, mingled with the sprinkling ingredients, were distributed through all the cities and towns of Israel.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ	ha.no.Ge.a'	the [one who] touches	H5060 →
בְּמֵ֖ת	be.Met	<in> a dead [body]	H4191 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	of every	H3605 →
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	corpse of	H5315 →
אָדָ֑ם	'a.Dam	a person	H120 →
וְטָמֵ֖א	ve.ta.Me'	and he will be unclean	H2930 →
שִׁבְעַ֥ת	shiv.'At	seven	H7651 →
יָמִֽים׃	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 19:16
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean…
leads to
- Numbers 31:19
  All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 23:27
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Through
Numbers 9:6
But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
leads to
- Numbers 5:2
  “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 18:15
  “Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
- Numbers 27:2
  the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said,
Through
Leviticus 21:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
leads to
- Ezekiel 44:25
  A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
Through
Numbers 5:2
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
leads to
- Leviticus 21:1
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
- Leviticus 13:46
  As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Numbers

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Numbers