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New Revised Standard

Numbers 19:15

And every open vessel with no cover fastened on it is unclean.

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.
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 Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days. 12 They shall purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if they do not purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, they will not become clean. 13 All who touch a corpse, the body of a human being who has died, and do not purify themselves, defile the tabernacle of the Lord ; such persons shall be cut off from Israel. Since water for cleansing was not dashed on them, they remain unclean; their uncleanness is still on them. 14 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. 15 And every open vessel with no cover fastened on it is unclean. 16 Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword, or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt purification offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel; 18 then a clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the furnishings, on the persons who were there, and on whoever touched the bone, the slain, the corpse, or the grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean ones on the third day and on the seventh day, thus purifying them on the seventh day. Then they shall wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water, and at evening they shall be clean. 20 Any who are unclean but do not purify themselves, those persons shall be cut off from the assembly, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord . Since the water for cleansing has not been dashed on them, they are unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house;
Genesis 19:5
and they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them."
Genesis 19:7
and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed."
Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
Genesis 19:25
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord ;
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, "At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!

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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