Numbers 19:11

Young's Literal Translation

`He who is coming against the dead body of any man -- is unclean 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.

Good News Translation
Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for 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,

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 `He who is coming against the dead body of any man -- is unclean seven days; <sup>12</sup> he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean. <sup>13</sup> Any one who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dieth, and cleanseth not himself -- the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness [is] still upon him. <sup>14</sup> `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; ¹⁵ and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean. ¹⁶ `And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days; <sup>17</sup> and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the [cleansing], and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel; <sup>18</sup> and a clean person hath taken hyssop, and hath dipped [it] in water, and hath sprinkled 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. <sup>19</sup> `And the clean hath sprinkled [it] on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day, and hath cleansed him on the seventh day, and he hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been clean in the evening. ²⁰ `And the man who is unclean, and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.

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
and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

Genesis 19:29
And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

2 Kings 6:18
And they come down unto it, and Elisha prayeth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Smite, I pray Thee, this nation with blindness;' and He smiteth them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.

Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

Isaiah 57:10
In the greatness of thy way thou hast laboured, Thou hast not said, `It is desperate.' The life of thy hand thou hast found, Therefore thou hast not been sick.

Jeremiah 2:36
What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashamed of Asshur,

Acts 13:11
and now, lo, a hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some 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!