Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain 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.

A bone

General references

Bible References

Toucheth

Numbers 19:11
He touching upon the dead of any soul of man and he was unclean seven days.
Numbers 31:19
And encamp ye without the camp seven days: every one killing a soul, and every one touching upon the wounded, ye shall be purified in the third day, and in the seventh day, ye and your captivity.

A bone

Ezekiel 39:11
And it was in that day, I will give to Gog a place there, a sepulchre in Israel, the valley of those passing through east of the sea: and it stopped those passing by: and they buried there Gog, and all his multitude: and they called the valley, The Multitude.

A grave

Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as concealed tombs, and men walking above know not.

General references

Leviticus 7:19
And the flesh which shall touch upon any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt in fire: and of all clean flesh, the flesh shall be eaten.
Leviticus 11:39
And when there shall die from the cattle which is to you for eating, he touching upon its carcass shall be unclean till the evening.