Numbers 19:11

Good News Translation

Those who touch a corpse are ritually 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.

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:

Bible in Basic English
Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for 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 Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days. ¹² They must purify themselves with the water for purification on the third day and on the seventh day, and then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on both the third and the seventh day, they will not be clean. ¹³ Those who touch a corpse and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the Lord 's Tent, and they will no longer be considered God's people. ¹⁴ In the case of a person who dies in a tent, anyone who is in the tent at the time of death or who enters it becomes ritually unclean for seven days. ¹⁵ Every jar and pot in the tent that has no lid on it also becomes unclean. ¹⁶ If any touch a person who has been killed or has died a natural death outdoors or if any touch a human bone or a grave, they become unclean for seven days. ¹⁷ To remove the uncleanness, some ashes from the red cow which was burned to remove sin shall be taken and put in a pot, and fresh water added. ¹⁸ In the first case, someone who is ritually clean is to take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, everything in it, and the people who were there. In the second case, someone who is ritually clean is to sprinkle the water on those who had touched the human bone or the dead body or the grave. ¹⁹ On the third day and on the seventh the person who is ritually clean is to sprinkle the water on the unclean persons. On the seventh day he is to purify those, who, after washing their clothes and pouring water over themselves, become ritually clean at sunset. ²⁰ Those who have become ritually unclean and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the Lord 's Tent and will no longer be considered God's people.

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
He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.

Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.

2 Kings 6:18
When the Syrians attacked, Elisha prayed, "O Lord , strike these men blind!" The Lord answered his prayer and struck them blind.

Ecclesiastes 10:15
Only someone too stupid to find his way home would wear himself out with work.

Isaiah 57:10
You wear yourselves out looking for other gods, but you never give up. You think your obscene idols give you strength, and so you never grow weak.

Jeremiah 2:36
You have cheapened yourself by turning to the gods of other nations. You will be disappointed by Egypt, just as you were by Assyria.

Acts 13:11
The Lord's hand will come down on you now; you will be blind and will not see the light of day for a time." At once Elymas felt a dark mist cover his eyes, and he walked around trying to find someone to lead him by the hand.

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!