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15 Every open container without a lid on it is unclean.

16 Anyone in the open countryside who touches someone killed by a sword or someone who has died, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

17 For the unclean person, take some of the ashes from the burnt sin offering, put them into a vessel, and add water from a flowing source[a] to the ashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 19:17 Literally living water. The source of the water is to be a flowing spring or stream, not a stagnant pool.

15 and every open container(A) without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.

16 “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death,(B) or anyone who touches a human bone(C) or a grave,(D) will be unclean for seven days.(E)

17 “For the unclean person, put some ashes(F) from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water(G) over them.

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