Thematic Bible
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dead Bodies » Jewish laws concerning
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
"He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."