Num 19:11-22 | NASB2020 | STEP | ‘ The one who touches the dead body of any person will also be unclean for seven days .

Numbers 19:11-22

11 ‘ ^aThe one who touches the dead body of any ^{▼▼Lit soul of mankind}person will also be unclean for seven days. 12 That one shall ^cpurify himself with ^{▼▼Lit it}the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean; but if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 13 ^eAnyone who touches a dead body, the ^{▼▼Lit soul}body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, ^gdefiles the ^{▼▼Lit dwelling place}tabernacle of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Since the water for impurity was not ⁱsprinkled on him, he will be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

14 ‘This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean for seven days. 15 And every open container, which has no cover tied down on it, will be unclean. 16 ^jAlso, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been killed with a sword or one who has died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days. 17 Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ^{▼▼Lit dust}ashes of the ^{▼▼Lit burning of the}burnt ^{▼▼Or sin offering
,} ⁿpurification from sin and ^{▼▼Lit living}running water shall be ^{▼▼Lit given}added to them in a container. 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the furnishings, on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one who was killed or the one who died naturally, or the grave. 19 Then the clean person ^qshall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and will be clean by evening.

20 ‘But the person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has ^rdefiled the sanctuary of the Lord; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, so he is unclean. 21 So it shall be a permanent statute for them. And the one ^swho sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening. 22 ^tFurthermore, anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean; and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”