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This isזֹאתthe instructionהַתּוֹרָהwhenכִּיa manאָדָםdiesיָמוּתin a tent:בְּאֹהֶלeveryoneכָּלwho comesהַבָּאintoאֶלthe tentהָאֹהֶלandוְeveryoneכָלwhoאֲשֶׁרis in the tentבָּאֹהֶלshall be uncleanיִטְמָאsevenשִׁבְעַתdays.יָמִים
Numbers 19:14
Study it in the app“This is the instruction when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 19:14, word by word
- the instructionתּוֹרָהtora
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appears- a manאָדָםadam
anyone
A person; with "not", no one.
Where else “adam” appears- diesיָמוּתyamut
die
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamut” appears- in a tentאֹהֶלohel
tent
A home of cloth or skins on poles, where herdsmen lived; also one's home.
Where else “ohel” appears- who comesבָּאba
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “ba” appears- shall be uncleanיִטְמָאyitma
be unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “yitma” appears- sevenשִׁבְעַתshivat
seven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “shivat” appears- daysיָמִיםyamim
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yamim” appears
The context
13Everyone who touches a dead person, the body of a human being who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the dwelling of YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of impurity was not splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
14 · This verse (above)
15And every open vessel that has no lid fastened on it is unclean.