Numbers 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:14 in other translations
| BSB | This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days, |
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| WEB | “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. |
| ASV | This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. |
| YLT | ‘This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one who is coming in unto the tent, and all that is in the tent, is unclean seven days; |
| DARBY | This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. |
| BBE | This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days. |
| Webster | This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. |
What does Numbers 19:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 19:11-22
11-22. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean--This law is noticed here to show the uses to which the water of separation [Nu 19:9] was applied. The case of a death is one; and as in every family which sustained a bereavement the members of the household became defiled, so in an immense population, where instances of mortality and other cases of uncleanness would be daily occurring, the water of…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 19:11-22
Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolish it, as the gospel does, by bringing life and immortality to light, and so introducing a better hope. As the ashes of the heifer signified the merit of Christ, so the running water signified the power and grace of the blessed…
Numbers 19:14 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 19:13
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
- Numbers 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
- Numbers 19:15
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Numbers 19:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Esta es la ley para cuando alguno muriere en la tienda: cualquiera que entrare en la tienda y todo el que estuviere en ella, será inmundo siete días. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est ici la loi, lorsqu’un homme meurt dans une tente: quiconque entre dans la tente, et tout ce qui est dans la tente, sera impur sept jours; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dies ist das Gesetz, wenn ein Mensch im Zelte stirbt: Jeder, der ins Zelt geht, und jeder, der im Zelte ist, wird sieben Tage unrein sein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ista est lex hominis qui moritur in tabernaculo: omnes qui ingrediuntur tentorium illius, et universa vasa quæ ibi sunt, polluta erunt septem diebus. |