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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Numeri 19:16

Non eris criminator, nec susurro in populo. Non stabis contra sanguinem proximi tui. Ego Dominus.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Burial;   Defilement;   Mourning;   Sanitation;   Water;   Thompson Chain Reference - Burying Places;   Dead, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burial;   Dead, the;   Defilement;   Red Heifer, the;   Sword, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Burial;   Clean and Unclean;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Funeral;   Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Funeral;   Grave;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carcase;   Grave;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Field;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Colours;   Numbers, Book of;   Red Heifer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Burial;   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;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bone;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Body;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agrarian law;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Hafṭarah;   Law, Reading from the;   Mishnah;   Ohalot;   Red Heifer;   Tiberias;   Tombs;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Si quis in agro tetigerit cadaver occisi hominis, aut per se mortui, sive os illius, vel sepulchrum, immundus erit septem diebus.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Si quis in agro tetigerit cadaver hominis gladio occisi aut per se mortui sive os illius vel sepulcrum, immundus erit septem diebus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

toucheth: Numbers 19:11, Numbers 31:19

a bone: Ezekiel 39:11-16

a grave: Matthew 23:27, Luke 11:44

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:39 - General Leviticus 21:1 - There Numbers 9:6 - defiled 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean 2 Kings 23:14 - the bones of men Isaiah 65:4 - remain Lamentations 4:14 - so that men could not touch Ezekiel 16:5 - but thou Ezekiel 39:12 - cleanse Luke 8:27 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields,.... That is killed by another, that dies a violent death, either by the sword or other means; one that touched such an one was unclean, or that touched the sword with which he was slain, as the Targum of Jonathan adds: "or a dead body": that dies a natural death, or suddenly, or in any way:

or a bone off a man; dug out of a grave, and lying by itself:

or a grave; the Targum adds, either the covering or side of a grave:

shall be unclean seven days; all which has respect to the defiling nature of sin, which is the cause of death and the grave.

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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