Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Bible References
Cleanse
Ezekiel 39:14
And men shall separate those who continually pass through the land, burying those who passed through, who remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall search.
Numbers 19:16
And whoever touches one that is killed with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.