Numbers 19:16 meaning and explanation
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking to Moses and Aaron, setting out the law of the red heifer for Israel in the wilderness. Verse 16 extends uncleanness beyond the tent of death to the open field: touching a body killed in battle or by natural death, a human bone, or a grave made a person unclean for seven days.
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