Numbers 19:14-16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel with no cover fastened on it is unclean. ¹⁶ Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword, or who has died naturally,^[a] or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.