Numbers 19:22

New Living Translation

Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially 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.

Easy-to-Read Version
And whoever an unclean person touches will be unclean until evening."

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 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 "All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. ¹² They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification; then they will be purified. But if they do not do this on the third and seventh days, they will continue to be unclean even after the seventh day. ¹³ All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the Lord 's Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues. ¹⁴ "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. ¹⁵ Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled. ¹⁶ And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days. ¹⁷ "To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering in a jar, and pour fresh water over them. ¹⁸ Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave. ¹⁹ On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those who are defiled. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement. ²⁰ "But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord . Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.

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 took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the Lord or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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

Genesis 19:1
That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.

Genesis 19:10
But the two angels reached out, pulled Lot into the house, and bolted the door.

Genesis 19:25
He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation.

Genesis 19:28
He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
Now leave me alone so my fierce anger can blaze against them, and I will destroy them. Then I will make you, Moses, into a great nation."

Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave me alone so I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'

Isaiah 15:5
My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 65:8
"But I will not destroy them all," says the Lord . "For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones (and someone will say, ‘Don't throw them all away— some of those grapes are good!'), so I will not destroy all Israel. For I still have true servants there.

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.