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15 Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord[a] on it is unclean. 16 Anyone in the open field[b] who touches one who has been slain,[c] or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days. 17 For the unclean person they will take[d] from the powder of the burnt purification offering,[e] and they will put[f] running water into a container.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 19:15 That is, “that does not have a lid tied shut”
  2. Numbers 19:16 Literally “upon the face of a field”
  3. Numbers 19:16 Literally “the dead of sword”
  4. Numbers 19:17 Hebrew “he will take”
  5. Numbers 19:17 Or “burning of the sin offering”
  6. Numbers 19:17 Hebrew “he will put”