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.
Toucheth
A bone
A grave
General references
Bible References
Toucheth
Numbers 19:11
"'Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
Numbers 31:19
"Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
A bone
Ezekiel 39:11
"'On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog.
A grave
Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!"
General references
Leviticus 7:19
The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
Leviticus 11:39
"'Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.