Numbers 19:11
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
Cross-references
Numbers 19:16 specifies the same seven-day uncleanness for touching a corpse, bone, or grave — directly expanding this verse.
In Numbers 31:19, the same seven-day purification applies to anyone who touched a slain person in battle.
In Numbers 9:10, the same uncleanness from a dead body is addressed, allowing a delayed Passover for those affected.
In Numbers 9:6, this very law is cited as the reason some men could not keep Passover — they had touched a dead body.
Numbers 5:2 also lists contact with the dead as a source of uncleanness, reinforcing the same purity law.
In Numbers 6:6, Nazirites are forbidden from touching any dead body, a stricter application of the general impurity law in Numbers 19:11.
Haggai 2:13 directly applies this law: unclean from a dead body makes anything touched also unclean.
Leviticus 21:11 forbids the high priest from touching any dead body — stricter than the general law here.
Leviticus 21:1 applies the same corpse impurity rule to priests, but permits exceptions for close relatives.
In Leviticus 22:4, the same impurity from touching the dead (Numbers 19:11) disqualifies priests from eating holy things until clean.
In Leviticus 7:21, touching human uncleanness (like a corpse) then eating holy food results in being cut off; it applies the impurity from Numbers 19:11.
In Leviticus 5:3, touching any human uncleanness is covered; touching a dead body (Numbers 19:11) is a specific case of that.
Ezekiel 39:14 describes burying corpses to cleanse the land — an application of the principle that dead bodies defile.
Ezekiel 44:26 applies the same seven-day purification for priests who touch a dead body — reinforcing Numbers 19:11.
Isaiah 65:4 condemns sitting in tombs — a deliberate defilement by corpse uncleanness, showing disregard for God's law.
In Leviticus 5:2, touching any dead animal carcass also causes uncleanness, extending the same principle from human corpses to animals.
Leviticus 11:39 similarly addresses uncleanness from touching a dead animal, but with a one-day duration rather than seven.
Leviticus 11:31 also deals with impurity from touching dead creatures, but only until evening — a shorter duration than the seven days here.
Leviticus 11:27 also deals with uncleanness from touching a carcass, but for animals and only until evening, not seven days as here.