9030 dead bodies
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Dead bodies were to be treated with respect

2 Samuel 21:12-14; Ecclesiastes 6:3

Unburied dead bodies were a sign of God's curse upon Israel

Deuteronomy 28:26; Jeremiah 16:4

Contact with dead bodies

The high priest was not to touch a dead body

Leviticus 21:11

Contact with a dead body made a person unclean

Numbers 19:11 See also Numbers 9:6-10; Numbers 19:16

Jesus Christ was willing to touch a dead body

Matthew 9:25 pp Mark 5:41 pp Luke 8:54; Mark 9:26-27; Luke 7:14

The reluctance to approach dead bodies because of the smell

John 11:39

See also

5137  bones
5241  burial
5288  dead, the
7340  clean and unclean
7424  ritual law



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