Numbers 19 · Verse 22

Numbers 19:22

And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
Numbers 19:22, King James Version

Numbers 19:22 in other translations

BSBAnything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
WEB“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
ASVAnd whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
YLTand all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against it is unclean till the evening.'
DARBYAnd whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
BBEAnything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.
WebsterAnd whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until the evening.

What does Numbers 19:22 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…

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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…

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Numbers 19:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְכֹ֛לve.Kholand allH3605
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-thatH834
יִגַּע\־yi.ga'-he will touchH5060
בּ֥וֹbo<in> <the> it
הַטָּמֵ֖אha.ta.Me'the unclean [person]H2931
יִטְמָ֑אyit.Ma'it will be uncleanH2930
וְהַנֶּ֥פֶשׁve.ha.Ne.feshand the personH5315
הַנֹּגַ֖עַתha.no.Ga.'atwho touches [it]H5060
תִּטְמָ֥אtit.Ma'it will be uncleanH2930
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הָעָֽרֶב\׃\ \פha.'A.revthe eveningH6153

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Cross references for Numbers 19:22

  • Haggai 2:13

    Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

  • Leviticus 15:5

    And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Leviticus 7:19

    And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

  • Leviticus 5:2

    Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

  • Mark 7:21-23

    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

  • Matthew 15:19-20

    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

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whatsoever.
Le 7:19; Hag 2:13
the soul.
Le 15:5; Mt 15:19,20; Mr 7:21-23

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Context

  • Numbers 19:21

    And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

  • Numbers 19:22

    And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

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Numbers 19:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y todo lo que el inmundo tocare, será inmundo: y la persona que lo tocare, será inmunda hasta la tarde.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et tout ce que l’homme impur aura touché sera impur; et celui qui l’aura touché sera impur jusqu’au soir.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und alles, was der Unreine anrührt, wird unrein sein; und wer ihn anrührt, wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quidquid tetigerit immundus, immundum faciet: et anima, quæ horum quippiam tetigerit, immunda erit usque ad vesperum.