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Numbers 19:15

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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.
Bible in Basic English
And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be 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 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. 14"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. 16"Anyone out in the open field who touches a corpse, whether dead from violent or natural causes, or a human bone or a grave is unclean for seven days. For this unclean person, take some ashes from the burned Absolution-Offering and add some fresh water to it in a bowl. Find a ritually clean man to dip a sprig of hyssop into the water and sprinkle the tent and all its furnishings, the persons who were in the tent, the one who touched the bones of the person who was killed or died a natural death, and whoever may have touched a grave. Then he is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third and seventh days. On the seventh day he is considered cleansed. The cleansed person must then scrub his clothes and take a bath; by evening he is clean. But if an unclean person does not go through these cleansing procedures, he must be excommunicated from the community; he has desecrated the Sanctuary of God . The Water-of-Cleansing has not been sprinkled on him and he is ritually unclean. This is the standing rule for these cases. "The man who sprinkles the Water-of-Cleansing has to scrub his clothes; anyone else who touched the Water-of-Cleansing is also ritually unclean until evening. 22 "Anything the ritually unclean man touches becomes unclean, and the person who touches what he touched is unclean until evening."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed men from all over the city of Sodom, young and old, descended on the house from all sides and boxed them in. They yelled to Lot, "Where are the men who are staying with you for the night? Bring them out so we can have our sport with them!"
Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham got up early the next morning and went to the place he had so recently stood with God . He looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah, surveying the whole plain. All he could see was smoke belching from the Earth, like smoke from a furnace.

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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