Ezekiel 39:12
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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.

Lexicon
For seven
שִׁבְעָ֖ה (šiḇ·‘āh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

months
חֳדָשִֽׁים׃ (ḥo·ḏā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2320: The new moon, a month

the house
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

will be burying them
וּקְבָרוּם֙ (ū·qə·ḇā·rūm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6912: To inter

in order
לְמַ֖עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 4616: Purpose -- intent

to cleanse
טַהֵ֣ר (ṭa·hêr)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2891: To be clean or pure

the land.
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land;

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

And the house of Israel have buried them -- in order to cleanse the land -- seven months.
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