Numbers 19:22
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New International Version (©2011)
Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be 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.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches is to be considered unclean and the person who touches him is to be considered unclean until the evening."

NET Bible (©2006)
And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any person that touches it shall be unclean until evening.

American King James Version
And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

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

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.

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

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

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 evening."

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.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:11-22 Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered into the world by it, and reigns by the power of it. The law could not conquer death, nor abolish it, as the gospel does, by bringing life and immortality to light, and so introducing a better hope. As the ashes of the heifer signified the merit of Christ, so the running water signified the power and grace of the blessed Spirit, who is compared to rivers of living water; and it is by his work that the righteousness of Christ is applied to us for our cleansing. Those who promise themselves benefit by the righteousness of Christ, while they submit not to the grace and influence of the Holy Spirit, do but deceive themselves; we cannot be purified by the ashes, otherwise than in the running water. What use could there be in these appointments, if they do not refer to the doctrines concerning the sacrifice of Christ? But comparing them with the New Testament, the knowledge to be got from them is evident. The true state of fallen man is shown in these institutions. Here we learn the defiling nature of sin, and are warned to avoid evil communications.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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Purification of the Unclean
…20But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 21And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until even. 22And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.

Leviticus 5:2 "'If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty--if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground) and they are unaware that they have become unclean, but then they come to realize their guilt;
Leviticus 5:3 or if they touch human uncleanness (anything that would make them unclean) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt;
Leviticus 7:21 Anyone who touches something unclean--whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground --and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.'"
Leviticus 22:5 or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.
Leviticus 22:6 The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
Haggai 2:13 Then Haggai said, "If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?" "Yes," the priests replied, "it becomes defiled."