KJV King James Version
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
And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
WEB World English Bible
“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
ASV American Standard Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against it is unclean till the evening.’
Surrounding context — Numbers 19
19 And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.
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.
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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Haggai 2:13Then 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 7:19And 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 15:5And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.Matthew 15:19-20For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:Leviticus 5:2Or 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 7:21-23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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