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Numbers 19:11

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

KJV

Qui tetigerit cadaver hominis, et propter hoc septem diebus fuerit immundus,

Vulgate

Ὁ ἁπτόμενος τοῦ τεθνηκότος πάσης ψυχῆς ἀνθρώπου ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας·

LXX

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

ASV

הַ/נֹּגֵ֥עַ בְּ/מֵ֖ת לְ/כָל נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֑ם וְ/טָמֵ֖א שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
טָמֵ֥א
tm'
verb · 162×
י
y
noun · 752×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נֹּגֵ֥עַ
ng'
verb · 149×
שִׁבְעַ֥ת
shb't
adjective · 393×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

To the saints honour must be paid as friends of Christ, as sons and heirs of God: in the words of John the theologian and evangelist, As many as received Him, to them gave He power to became sons of God. John 1:12 So that they are no longer servants, but sons: and if sons, also heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ : and the Lord in the holy Gospels says to His apostl…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 6:17 — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
  • Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
  • Gen 50:10 — And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
  • Hag 2:13 — Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
  • Hag 2:13 — Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Lam 4:14 — They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
  • Lev 5:2 — Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shal
  • Lev 5:3 — Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
  • Lev 11:31 — These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
  • Lev 21:1 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
  • Lev 21:11 — Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
  • Num 5:2 — Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
  • Num 9:6 — And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
  • Num 9:6 — And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
  • Num 9:10 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
  • Num 19:16 — 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.
  • Num 19:16 — 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.
  • Num 31:19 — And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
  • Num 31:19 — And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
  • Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: