Ezekiel 39:12
Good News Translation
It will take the Israelites seven months to bury all the corpses and make the land clean again.

New Revised Standard Version
Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites will spend seven months burying dead bodies and cleaning up their land.

New American Bible
For seven months the house of Israel shall bury them in order to cleanse the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.

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Ezekiel 39:14,16 And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin to seek. . . .

Numbers 19:16 If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.

Context
The Slaughter of Gog's Armies
11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog. 12And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.13And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be unto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.

Ezekiel 39:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.

Ezekiel 39:14
And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin to seek.

Ezekiel 39:16
And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:11
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