Numbers 19:15
What does Numbers 19:15 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 19:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.
Context
v.14This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
v.15This passage
v.16And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 31:20
And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves.
- Leviticus 11:32
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.
- Leviticus 14:36
And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goeth in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
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