Numbers 19:11

Bible in Basic English

Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

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

Lexham English Bible
"‘The one who touches a corpse of any person will be unclean for seven days.

English Standard Version
"Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

New Century Version
"Those who touch a dead person's body will be unclean for seven days.

New English Translation
"‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

Amplified Bible
'The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

New American Standard Bible
'The one who touches the dead body of any person will also be unclean for seven days.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee that toucheth the dead body of any man, shalbe vncleane euen seuen dayes.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘The one who touches the corpse of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: If you touch a dead body, you will be unclean for seven days.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, will be unclean for seven days.

Darby Translation
He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.

Easy-to-Read Version
Those who touch a dead body will be unclean for seven days.

George Lamsa Translation
He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Good News Translation
Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.

Christian Standard Bible®
“The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

Literal Translation
He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so now toucheth a deed ma, shal be vncleane seuen dayes:

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that toucheth the dead body of any man, shalbe vncleane seuen dayes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days;

King James Version (1611)
He that toucheth the dead body of any man, shall bee vncleane seuen dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that touches the dead body of any man, shall be unclean seven days.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that touchith a deed bodi of man, and is vncleene for this bi seuene daies,

Young's Literal Translation
`He who is coming against the dead body of any man -- is unclean seven days;

Update Bible Version
He that touches any dead body of man shall be unclean seven days:

Webster's Bible Translation
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

World English Bible
He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

New King James Version
"He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.

New Living Translation
"All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.

New Life Bible
"The one who touches the dead body of any person will be unclean for seven days.

New Revised Standard
Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that toucheth the dead, even any human person, shall be unclean seven days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,

Revised Standard Version
"He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days;

THE MESSAGE
"Anyone who touches a dead body is ritually unclean for seven days. He must purify himself with the Water-of-Cleansing on the third day; on the seventh day he will be clean. But if he doesn't follow the procedures for the third and seventh days, he won't be clean. Anyone who touches the dead body of anyone and doesn't get cleansed desecrates God 's Dwelling and is to be excommunicated. For as long as the Water-of-Cleansing has not been sprinkled on him, he remains ritually unclean.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The one who touches the corpse of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days: ¹² On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. ¹³ Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged. ¹⁴ This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean. ¹⁶ And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁷ And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel: ¹⁸ And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched. ¹⁹ Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening. ²⁰ But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

toucheth the dead: He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day - Leviticus 11:12, Leviticus 11:27, Leviticus 11:39, 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, Numbers 9:10, Numbers 31:19, Leviticus 11:31, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:11, Lamentations 4:14, Haggai 2:13, Romans 5:12, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Ephesians 2:1, Hebrews 9:14

man: Heb. soul of man

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:10 - seven days Leviticus 5:2 - touch Leviticus 5:3 - the uncleanness Leviticus 7:19 - General Leviticus 7:21 - the uncleanness Leviticus 15:13 - seven days Leviticus 22:4 - unclean Numbers 6:6 - he shall come Numbers 31:13 - without the camp 2 Chronicles 35:6 - sanctify Isaiah 65:4 - remain Ezekiel 39:14 - they shall Ezekiel 44:26 - General Hosea 9:4 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 19:28
And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

Genesis 19:29
So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

2 Kings 6:18
Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.

Ecclesiastes 10:15
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.

Isaiah 57:10
You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.

Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

Acts 13:11
And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that toucheth the dead body of any man,.... A man and not a beast, as Aben Ezra observes; for he that touched the dead body of a beast was unclean only until evening, Leviticus 11:24; any man, Jew or Gentile, as the same writer notes: this is instanced in, as being the principal pollution, though not the only one, yet so some think, for which the water of purification made of the ashes of the burnt heifer was appointed:

shall be unclean seven days; the reason of which is, because death is the fruit of sin, which is of a defiling nature, and to show that all that are dead in sins are defiled and defiling, and are not to be touched, or to have communion and fellowship held with them but to be abstained from.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 19:11. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. — How low does this lay man! He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 11:27; Leviticus 11:39; but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to mark the peculiar impurity of man, and to show his sinfulness - seven times worse than the vilest animal! O thou son of the morning, how art thou fallen!