Numbers 19:22

Easy-to-Read Version

And whoever an unclean person touches will be unclean until evening."

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.'"

Amplified Bible
'Furthermore, anything the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be [ceremonially] 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.

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 Those who touch a dead body will be unclean for seven days. ¹² They must wash themselves with the special water on the third day and again on the seventh day. If they don't do this, they will remain unclean. ¹³ Those who touch the body of someone who has died are unclean. If they stay unclean and then go to the Lord 's Holy Tent, they make it unclean. So they must be separated from the Israelites. Because the special water was not thrown on them, they remain unclean. ¹⁴ "This is the rule about those who die in their tents: If someone dies in the tent, everyone in the tent will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁵ And every jar or pot without a lid becomes unclean. ¹⁶ If there is a dead body out in a field, whether the person died in battle or for some other reason, whoever touches that dead body, or its bones, or even its grave will be unclean for seven days. ¹⁷ "If you have become unclean, someone must use the ashes from the burned cow to make you clean again. They must pour fresh water over the ashes into a jar. ¹⁸ That clean person must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. The clean person must sprinkle it over the tent, the dishes, and any people who were in the tent. That clean person must do this for anyone who touches a dead body, its bones, or even a grave. ¹⁹ "Then that clean person must sprinkle this water on you on the third day and again on the seventh day. On the seventh day you will become clean. You must wash your clothes in water and you will become clean in the evening. ²⁰ "Whoever becomes unclean and does not become clean must be separated from the community. If an unclean person is not sprinkled with that special water and does not become clean, that person might make the Lord 's Holy Tent 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
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)

Genesis 14:2
All these kings fought a war against King Bera of Sodom: King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)

Genesis 19:1
That evening the two angels came to the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting near the city gates and saw them. He got up and went to them. He bowed to show respect and said, "Sirs, please come to my house, and I will serve you. There you can wash your feet and stay the night. Then tomorrow you can continue your journey." The angels answered, "No, we will stay the night in the city square."

Genesis 19:10
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and closed the door.

Genesis 19:25
He destroyed the whole valley—all the cities, the people living in the cities, and all the plants in the valley.

Genesis 19:28
Abraham looked down into the valley toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
So now let me destroy them in anger. Then I will make a great nation from you."

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me destroy these people completely, so no one will even remember their names. Then I will make another nation from you that is stronger and greater than these people.'

Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries, full of sorrow for Moab. Its people run away to Zoar for safety. They run to Eglath Shelishiyah. The people are crying as they go up the road to Luhith. They are crying loudly as they walk on the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 65:8
The Lord says, "When there is new wine in the grapes, people squeeze out the wine. But they don't completely destroy the grapes because the grapes can still be used. I will do the same thing to my servants. I will not destroy them completely.

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.