Numbers 19:13
Context| NETBible | Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. And that person must be cut off from Israel, 1 because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him. |
| XREF | Le 5:3,6,17; Le 7:20; Le 15:31; Le 22:3; Nu 8:7; Nu 15:30; Nu 19:9,18; Pr 14:32; Joh 8:24; Heb 2:2,3; Heb 10:29; Re 21:8; Re 22:11,15 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn It is in passages like this that the view that being “cut off” meant the death penalty is the hardest to support. Would the Law prescribe death for someone who touches a corpse and fails to follow the ritual? Besides, the statement in this section that his uncleanness remains with him suggests that he still lives on. |
