Numbers 19:22

The NET Bible®

And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

King James Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Lexham English Bible
Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.'"

English Standard Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

New Century Version
Anything an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and whoever touches it will be unclean until evening."

Amplified Bible
'Furthermore, anything the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be [ceremonially] unclean until evening.'"

New American Standard Bible
'Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean; and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shall be vncleane: and the person that toucheth him, shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.

Legacy Standard Bible
Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.'"

Contemporary English Version
When you are unclean, everything you touch becomes unclean, and anyone who touches you will be unclean until evening.

Complete Jewish Bible
Anything the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches him will be unclean until evening."

Darby Translation
And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Easy-to-Read Version
And whoever an unclean person touches will be unclean until evening."

George Lamsa Translation
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.

Good News Translation
Whatever an unclean person touches is unclean, and anyone else who touches it remains unclean until evening.

Christian Standard Bible®
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

Literal Translation
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And what so euer he toucheth, shalbe vncleane: & loke what soule he toucheth, shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.

American Standard Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Bible in Basic English
Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shalbe vncleane: And the soule that toucheth [the thyng that was touched of the vncleane person] shalbe vncleane vntyll euen.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth him shall be unclean until even.

King James Version (1611)
And whatsoeuer the vncleane person toucheth, shall be vncleane: and the soule that toucheth it, shall bee vncleane vntill Euen.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.

English Revised Version
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Berean Standard Bible
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What euer thing an vncleene man touchith, he schal make it vncleene; and a soule that touchith ony of these thingis `defoulid so, schal be vncleene `til to euentid.

Young's Literal Translation
and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against [it] is unclean till the evening.'

Update Bible Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.

Webster's Bible Translation
And whatever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until the evening.

World English Bible
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

New King James Version
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening."'

New Living Translation
Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening."

New Life Bible
Anything that the person who is unclean touches will be unclean. And the person who touches it will be unclean until evening."

New Revised Standard
Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, whatsoever the unclean person toucheth, shall be unclean, - and the person who toucheth it shall be unclean until the evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it unclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean until the evening.

Revised Standard Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

THE MESSAGE
"Anything the ritually unclean man touches becomes unclean, and the person who touches what he touched is unclean until evening."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.'"

Contextual Overview

¹¹ "‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days. ¹² He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean. ¹³ Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord . And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him. ¹⁴ "‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean. ¹⁶ And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ "‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel. ¹⁸ Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave. ¹⁹ And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening. ²⁰ But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord ; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whatsoever: Leviticus 7:19, Haggai 2:13

the soul: Leviticus 15:5, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 15:20, Mark 7:21-23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:25 - and be unclean Leviticus 14:46 - shall be unclean Numbers 5:3 - defile not Numbers 31:20 - raiment

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

Genesis 14:2
went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Genesis 19:10
So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Genesis 19:25
So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

Genesis 19:28
He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Exodus 32:10
So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation."

Deuteronomy 9:14
Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are."

Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out because of Moab's plight, and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah. For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith; they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 65:8
This is what the Lord says: "When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes, someone says, ‘Don't destroy it, for it contains juice.' So I will do for the sake of my servants— I will not destroy everyone.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,.... Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching the water of purification, but the unclean person spoken of throughout the chapter, that was unclean by touching a dead body, bone, or grave; whatever that man touched, any vessel or thing, that was unclean also; or "whomsoever", any person, man or woman, for it respects both persons and things:

and the soul that toucheth it; that which the unclean person hath touched; or "him", the unclean person, whether the unclean person touched him, or he the unclean person, or touched anything he had touched, he was unclean; denoting the spreading and infectious nature of sin, and how much sin and sinners are to be avoided; see

Leviticus 15:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal to be devoured by the wild beasts.