11 He must not enter a place where there is a dead body.(A) He must not make himself unclean,(B) even for his father or mother,(C)

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11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

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“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[a](A) or a discharge(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean(C) because of a dead body.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

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“‘Throughout the period of their dedication to the Lord, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body.(A)

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All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

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11 “Whoever touches a human corpse(A) will be unclean for seven days.(B)

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11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

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19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed(A) must stay outside the camp seven days.(B) On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves(C) and your captives.

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19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

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