Ezekiel 39:14
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
Cross-reference
Ezekiel 39:12
Parallel
In Ezekiel 39:12, seven months of burial cleanse the land; here the appointed buriers carry out that command.
Numbers 19:11–19
Historical context
Numbers 19:11-19 provides the purification ritual for corpse defilement, which underlies the land-cleansing burial process here.