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Numbers 19:15

And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Mourning;   Sanitation;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;   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 - Clean, Unclean;   Funeral;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - War;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship;   Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Heifer, Red;   Water of Separation;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ashes;   Burial;   Clean and unclean;   Covenant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cover;   Israel, Religion of;   Lace;   Uncleanness;   Vessel;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agrarian law;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Kelim;   Law, Reading from the;   Mishnah;   Ohalot;   Red Heifer;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
King James Version
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Lexham English Bible
Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord on it is unclean.
English Standard Version
And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
New Century Version
And every open jar or pot without a cover becomes unclean.
New English Translation
And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.
Amplified Bible
'Every open container [in the tent], which has no covering tied down on it, is unclean.
New American Standard Bible
'And every open container, which has no cover tied down on it, will be unclean.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the vessels that bee open, which haue no couering fastened vpon them, shall be vncleane.
Legacy Standard Bible
And every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.
Contemporary English Version
Any open jar in the tent is unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible
Every open container without a cover closely attached is unclean.
Darby Translation
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
Easy-to-Read Version
And every jar or pot without a lid becomes unclean.
George Lamsa Translation
And every open vessel which is not covered is unclean.
Good News Translation
Every jar and pot in the tent that has no lid on it also becomes unclean.
Christian Standard Bible®
and any open container without a lid tied on it is unclean.
Literal Translation
And every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it shall be unclean.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euery open vessel that hath no lydd nor couerynge, is vncleane.
American Standard Version
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the vessels that be open, which haue no coueryng bounde vpon them, shalbe vncleane.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean.
King James Version (1611)
And euery open vessel which hath no couering bound vpon it, is vncleane.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
English Revised Version
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Berean Standard Bible
and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A vessel that hath not an hilyng, nethir a byndyng aboue, schal be vncleene.
Young's Literal Translation
and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean.
Update Bible Version
And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
Webster's Bible Translation
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, [is] unclean.
World English Bible
Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
New King James Version
and every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean.
New Living Translation
Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.
New Life Bible
And every open pot that has no cover on it will be unclean.
New Revised Standard
And every open vessel with no cover fastened on it is unclean.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in the case of every open vessel, on which no cover is fastened, unclean, it is.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.
Revised Standard Version
And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.

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

Numbers 31:20, Leviticus 11:32, Leviticus 14:36

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;
Genesis 19:5
And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
Genesis 19:7
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.
Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Genesis 19:22
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 19:25
And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every open vessel,.... An earthen one, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi interprets it; and Maimonides r observes, that this is only to be understood of an earthen vessel:

which hath no covering bound upon it; a linen or a woollen cloth wrapped and tied about it:

[is] unclean; the air of the house getting into it by its being uncovered.

r In Misn. Cholin, c. 1. sect. 6.

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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