Numbers 19:15
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Numbers 19:15 in other translations
| BSB | and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean. |
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| WEB | Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. |
| ASV | And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. |
| YLT | and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean. |
| DARBY | And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean. |
| BBE | And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean. |
| Webster | And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. |
What does Numbers 19:15 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 19:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 19:15
- Leviticus 11:32
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
- Leviticus 14:36
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
- Numbers 31:20
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
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Context
- 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 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y todo vaso abierto, sobre el cual no hubiere tapadera bien ajustada, será inmundo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et tout vase découvert, sur lequel il n’y a pas de couvercle attaché, sera impur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und jedes offene Gefäß, auf dem kein festgebundener Deckel ist, wird unrein sein. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vas, quod non habuerit operculum nec ligaturam desuper, immundum erit. |