במדבר 19:15

Hebrew Modern Translation

וכל כלי פתוח אשר אין צמיד פתיל עליו טמא הוא׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
וכל כלי פתוח אשר אין צמיד פתיל עליו טמא הוא

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְכֹל֙ כְּלִ֣י פָת֔וּחַ אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵין־צָמִ֥יד פָּתִ֖יל עָלָ֑יו טָמֵ֖א הֽוּא ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְכֹל כְּלִי פָתוּחַ אֲשֶׁר אֵין־צָמִיד פָּתִיל עָלָיו טָמֵא הֽוּא ׃

Bible Verse Review
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Numbers 31:20, Leviticus 11:32, Leviticus 14:36

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.