Numbers 19:16
Good News Translation
If any touch a person who has been killed or has died a natural death outdoors or if any touch a human bone or a grave, they become unclean for seven days.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword, or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Contemporary English Version
If you touch the body of someone who died or was killed, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, you will be unclean for seven days.

New American Bible
Moreover, everyone who in the open country touches a person who has been slain by the sword or who has died naturally, or who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.

toucheth

Numbers 19:11 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,

Numbers 31:19 And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.

a bone

Ezekiel 39:11-16 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog. . . .

a grave

Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Luke 11:44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Context
Purification of the Unclean
15The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean. 16If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.17And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of the sin offering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel.…
Cross References
Numbers 19:15
The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.

Numbers 31:19
And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.

Isaiah 52:11
Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.

Numbers 19:15
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