Numeri 19:22

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quidquid tetigerit immundus, immundum faciet: et anima, quæ horum quippiam tetigerit, immunda erit usque ad vesperum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
orabitque pro eo sacerdos, et pro peccato ejus coram Domino, et repropitiabitur ei, dimitteturque peccatum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quidquid tetigerit immundus, immundum erit, et anima, quae horum quippiam tetigerit, immunda erit usque ad vesperum".

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

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.