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Numbers 19:22

'Furthermore, anything the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be [ceremonially] unclean until evening.'"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Sanitation;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Red Heifer, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Burial;   Clean and Unclean;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Church, the;   Clean, Unclean;   Funeral;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carcase;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Unclean and Clean;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Heifer, Red;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ashes;   Burial;   Clean and unclean;   Covenant;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Num'bers,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Defile;   Uncleanness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Brazen Serpent;   Corpse;   Hafṭarah;   Law, Reading from the;   Red Heifer;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
King James Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Lexham English Bible
Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.'"
English Standard Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."
New Century Version
Anything an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and whoever touches it will be unclean until evening."
New English Translation
And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"
New American Standard Bible
'Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean; and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shall be vncleane: and the person that toucheth him, shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.'"
Contemporary English Version
When you are unclean, everything you touch becomes unclean, and anyone who touches you will be unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
Anything the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches him will be unclean until evening."
Darby Translation
And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Easy-to-Read Version
And whoever an unclean person touches will be unclean until evening."
George Lamsa Translation
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.
Good News Translation
Whatever an unclean person touches is unclean, and anyone else who touches it remains unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
Literal Translation
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And what so euer he toucheth, shalbe vncleane: & loke what soule he toucheth, shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.
American Standard Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Bible in Basic English
Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shalbe vncleane: And the soule that toucheth [the thyng that was touched of the vncleane person] shalbe vncleane vntyll euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth him shall be unclean until even.
King James Version (1611)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shall be vncleane: and the soule that toucheth it, shall bee vncleane vntill Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.
English Revised Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Berean Standard Bible
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What euer thing an vncleene man touchith, he schal make it vncleene; and a soule that touchith ony of these thingis `defoulid so, schal be vncleene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against [it] is unclean till the evening.'
Update Bible Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whatever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
New King James Version
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening."'
New Living Translation
Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening."
New Life Bible
Anything that the person who is unclean touches will be unclean. And the person who touches it will be unclean until evening."
New Revised Standard
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, whatsoever the unclean person toucheth, shall be unclean, - and the person who toucheth it shall be unclean until the evening.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it unclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening."
THE MESSAGE
"Anything the ritually unclean man touches becomes unclean, and the person who touches what he touched is unclean until evening."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.'"

Contextual Overview

11'The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days. 12'That one shall purify himself from uncleanness with the water [made with the ashes of the burned heifer] on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 13'Whoever touches a corpse, the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel [that is, excluded from the atonement made for them]. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still 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 [ceremonially] unclean for seven days. 15'Every open container [in the tent], which has no covering tied down on it, is unclean. 16'Also, anyone in the open field who touches one who has been killed with a sword or who has died [of natural causes], or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days. 17'Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for the purification from sin, and running water shall be added to them in a container. 18'A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the people who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one who was killed or the one who died [naturally] or the grave. 19'Then the clean person shall sprinkle [the water for purification] on the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day the unclean man shall purify himself, and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be [ceremonially] clean at evening. 20'But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whatsoever: Leviticus 7:19, Haggai 2:13

the soul: Leviticus 15:5, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 15:20, Mark 7:21-23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:25 - and be unclean Leviticus 14:46 - shall be unclean Numbers 5:3 - defile not Numbers 31:20 - raiment

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].
Genesis 14:2
they [invaded the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, and] made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 19:1
It was evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom's [city] gate. Seeing them, Lot got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 19:10
But the men (angels) reached out with their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door [after him].
Genesis 19:25
and He overthrew (demolished, ended) those cities, and the entire valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:28
and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley [of the Dead Sea]; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a kiln (pottery furnace).
Exodus 32:10
"Now therefore, let Me alone and do not interfere, so that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you (your descendants) a great nation."
Deuteronomy 9:14
'Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.
Isaiah 65:8
This is what the LORD says, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing and benefit in it,' So I will do for the sake of My servants In order not to destroy all of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,.... Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching the water of purification, but the unclean person spoken of throughout the chapter, that was unclean by touching a dead body, bone, or grave; whatever that man touched, any vessel or thing, that was unclean also; or "whomsoever", any person, man or woman, for it respects both persons and things:

and the soul that toucheth it; that which the unclean person hath touched; or "him", the unclean person, whether the unclean person touched him, or he the unclean person, or touched anything he had touched, he was unclean; denoting the spreading and infectious nature of sin, and how much sin and sinners are to be avoided; see

Leviticus 15:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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