Thematic Bible
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dead Bodies » Jewish laws concerning
his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;
‘All the time that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
But there were certain men who were [ceremonially] unclean because of [touching] the dead body of a man, so they could not observe the Passover on that day; so they came before Moses and Aaron that same day.
‘The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
Then Haggai said, “If one who is [ceremonially] unclean because of [contact with] a corpse touches any of these [articles of food], will it be unclean?” And the priests answered, “It will be unclean.” [Ceremonial uncleanness, like sin, is infectious.]