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Numbers 19:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. "
Numbers 19:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
12 He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the LORD’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
14 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who 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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Numbers 19:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,"
Numbers 19:2
"“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked."
Numbers 19:3
"You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face."
Numbers 19:4
"Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times."
Numbers 19:5
"One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn."
Numbers 19:6
"The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer."
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