Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
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Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
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And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
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And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Numbers 19:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 14:36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
- Leviticus 11:32 Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
- Numbers 31:20 You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, a covering of cloth.
Hebrew, a covering of cloth.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Every open vessel, because it receives the air of…
Every open vessel, because it receives the air of the tent, by which it is ceremonially polluted. Compare Lev 11:32,33.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And every open vessel,.... An earthen one, as the…
And every open vessel,.... An earthen one, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi interprets it; and Maimonides (r) observes, that this is only to be understood of an earthen vessel:
which hath no covering bound upon it; a linen or a woollen cloth wrapped and tied about it:
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is unclean; the air of the house getting into it by its being uncovered.
(r) In Misn. Cholin, c. 1. sect. 6.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Cover. Samaritan, "neither chains nor bands." Formerly boxes were…
Cover. Samaritan, "neither chains nor bands." Formerly boxes were tied down. (Homer, Odyssey viii.) If the covering of any hollow vessel was off, when a corpse was present, it became unclean. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Every open vessel — The uncovered vessel is…
15. Every open vessel — The uncovered vessel is rendered unclean by the subtle effluvia of the corpse diffused in the air. Hence, according to the Hebrew, there must be for such vessel a cover bound by a string.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Which hath no covering bound upon it. So the…
Which hath no covering bound upon it. So the Septuagint (osa ouci desmodetai ep autw ), and this is the sense. In the Hebrew lytiP, a string, stands in apposition to dymiX, a covering. If the vessel was open, its contents were polluted by the odour of death.
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