“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
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“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth him shall be unclean until even.
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Passages linked to Numbers 19:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Haggai 2:13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
- Leviticus 7:19 “ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;
- Leviticus 5:2 “ ‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
- Leviticus 15:5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Matthew 15:19-20 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
- Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, unclean.
That is, unclean.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The unclean person; not he who is so only…
The unclean person; not he who is so only by touching the water of separation, Num 19:21, but he who is so by the greater sort of uncleanness, which lasted seven days, of which Num 19:11,16, and which was not removed without the use of this water of purification, as is manifest from the context and other places of Scripture, and from the nature of the thing; for the lesser sort of uncleanness, mentioned in the foregoing verse, lasted only till even, and was cleansed by the sole washing of his clothes and flesh in water, Num 19:7, without any use of this water of purification, which, if it had been necessary, must have been used on the third and on the seventh day, according to the rule, Num 19:12,19, and so the uncleanness of one day had been made an uncleanness of seven days, which is a contradiction. Besides it is unreasonable, that he who immediately touched the defiling thing, should be no more and longer unclean than he who touched that person only; and it was contrary to other rules in like cases, as Le 15, where the man or woman having an issue, are thereby made unclean for seven days, Lev 15:13,28, but he who toucheth them is made unclean only till even, Le 15:7,27. And therefore this cannot be meant of him who was unclean by touching this water, who himself was unclean only till even, Num 19:21, as also he who toucheth him is in this place.
Shall be unclean, to signify to us the very infectious nature of sin and of sinful company.
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Until even, because as his defilement was less, so it was fit the duration of it should be shorter.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,....…
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,.... Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching the water of purification, but the unclean person spoken of throughout the chapter, that was unclean by touching a dead body, bone, or grave; whatever that man touched, any vessel or thing, that was unclean also; or "whomsoever", any person, man or woman, for it respects both persons and things:
and the soul that toucheth it; that which the unclean person hath touched; or "him", the unclean person, whether the unclean person touched him, or he the unclean person, or touched anything he had touched, he was unclean; denoting the spreading and infectious nature of sin, and how much sin and sinners are to be avoided; see Lev 15:4.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The unclean person - Not he who is so…
The unclean person - Not he who is so only by touching the water of separation, ver. 21, but he who is so by the greater sort of uncleanness, which lasted seven days, and which was not removed without the use of this water of purification.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Is unclean, by touching the dead, must remain defiled…
Is unclean, by touching the dead, must remain defiled seven days. But those whom he touches, as well as all who may have communication with them in infinitum, may be purified in the evening. (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).