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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 19:14

This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who is coming into the tent and all that [is] in the tent are unclean [for] seven days;

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 - Burial;   Numbers, the Book of;   Tabernacle;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Field;   Purity-Purification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bier;   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 - Israel, Religion of;   Talmud;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agrarian law;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Burial;   Commandments, the 613;   Corpse;   Gentile;   Hafṭarah;   Kelim;   Law, Reading from the;   Medicine;   Mishnah;   Ohalot;   Red Heifer;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
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 unclean seven days.
King James Version
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Lexham English Bible
"‘This is the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be unclean seven days.
English Standard Version
"This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.
New Century Version
"This is the teaching about someone who dies in a tent: Anyone in the tent or anyone who enters it will be unclean for seven days.
New English Translation
"‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
Amplified Bible
'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.
New American Standard Bible
'This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the law, Whe a man dieth in a tent, all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shalbe vncleane seuen dayes,
Legacy Standard Bible
‘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 unclean for seven days.
Contemporary English Version
If someone dies in a tent while you are there, you will be unclean for seven days. And anyone who later enters the tent will also be unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible
"This is the law: when a person dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent and everything in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
Darby Translation
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Easy-to-Read Version
"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.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent and every one who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.
Good News Translation
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
“This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Literal Translation
This is the law when a man dies in a tent: Everyone who comes into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the lawe. Whan a ma dyeth in ye tente, who so euer goeth in to the tente, and all yt is in the tente, shal be vncleane seue daies.
American Standard Version
This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the lawe of a man that dyeth in a tent: All that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shalbe vncleane seuen dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the law: when a man dieth in a tent, every one that cometh into the tent, and every thing that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
King James Version (1611)
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent; all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shalbe vnclean seuen dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this is the law; if a man die in a house, every one that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.
English Revised Version
This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the lawe of a man that dieth in the tabernacle; alle that entren in to his tente, and alle vessels that ben there, schulen be defoulid bi seuene daies.
Young's Literal Translation
`This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one who is coming in unto the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, is unclean seven days;
Update Bible Version
This is the law when man dies in a tent: every one that comes into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
World English Bible
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 unclean seven days.
New King James Version
"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days;
New Living Translation
"This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
New Life Bible
"This is the Law when a man dies in a tent. Everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean for seven days.
New Revised Standard
This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the law - When, a human being, shall die in a tent, every one who goeth into the tent and every one who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven days.
Revised Standard Version
"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
THE MESSAGE
"This is the rule for someone who dies in his tent: Anyone who enters the tent or is already in the tent is ritually unclean for seven days, and every open container without a lid is unclean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'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 unclean for seven days.

Contextual Overview

11He who is coming against the dead body of any man is unclean [for] seven days; 12he cleanses himself for it on the third day and on the seventh day, [and] he is clean; and if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he is not clean. 13Anyone who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dies, and does not cleanse himself, he has defiled the Dwelling Place of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he is unclean; his uncleanness [is] still on him. 14This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who is coming into the tent and all that [is] in the tent are unclean [for] seven days;15and every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it is unclean. 16And everyone on the face of the field who comes against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean [for] seven days; 17and for the unclean person they have taken from the ashes of the burning of the [cow], and he has put running water over it into a vessel; 18and a clean person has taken hyssop, and has dipped [it] in water, and has sprinkled [it] on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave. 19And the clean has sprinkled [it] on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and has cleansed him on the seventh day, and he has washed his garments, and has bathed with water, and has been clean in the evening. 20And the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, indeed, that person has been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he [is] unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:54 - the law Leviticus 15:32 - General Leviticus 21:1 - There Leviticus 21:11 - his father Numbers 6:9 - and he Numbers 31:20 - raiment

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they lie down, the men of the city—men of Sodom—have surrounded the house, from young even to aged, all the people from the extremity;
Genesis 19:8
now behold, I have two daughters who have not known anyone; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, for therefore they have come in within the shadow of my roof."
Genesis 19:12
And the men say to Lot, "Whom have you here still? Son-in-law, your sons also, and your daughters, and all whom you have in the city, bring out from this place;
Genesis 19:14
And Lot goes out and speaks to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and says, "Rise, go out from this place, for YHWH is destroying the city"; and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:17
And it comes to pass, when he has brought them outside, that he says, "Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stand in all the circuit; escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed."
Genesis 19:22
hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your entering there"; therefore he calls the name of the city Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot goes up out of Zoar, and dwells in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he has been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwells in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
and he who has not set his heart to the word of YHWH leaves his servants and his livestock in the field.
Exodus 12:31
and he calls for Moses and for Aaron by night and says, "Rise, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the sons of Israel, and go, serve YHWH according to your word;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is the law when a man dieth in a tent,.... A tent is only mentioned, because the Israelites now dwelt in tents, as Aben Ezra remarks; otherwise the law holds equally good of an house as of a tent:

all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days; the meaning of which is, that all persons that come into a tent or house where a dead body is are equally unclean as those that were in it when it died; and the same is to be supposed of all vessels brought into it, as well as those that are in it, that is, open ones, as appears by what follows.

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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