Numbers 19:11

Purification from Uncleanness

11 “‘Whoever touches
The form is the participle with the article functioning as a substantive: “the one who touches.”
the corpse
Heb “the dead.”
of any person
The expression is full: לְכָל־נֶפֶשׁ אָדָם (lekhol-nefesh adam) – of any life of a man, i.e., of any person.
will be ceremonially unclean
The verb is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows only the participle used as the subject, but since the case is hypothetical and therefore future, this picks up the future time. The adjective “ceremonially” is supplied in the translation as a clarification.
seven days.
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