“Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
Parallel translations
- KJV Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
- BSB Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
- NKJV Moreover he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.
- NASB Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening.
- NLT Those who enter the house during the period of quarantine will be ceremonially unclean until evening,
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Quick answer
Anyone who enters the shut-up house becomes unclean until evening. It matters because contact with a quarantined, contaminated dwelling transmitted ceremonial uncleanness.
Overview
Entering the house during its quarantine renders a person unclean until evening, showing how readily defilement spreads through contact. The temporary uncleanness guarded the community from the contamination's reach. This contagious quality of impurity illustrates sin's spreading influence and the need for separation, while pointing forward to Christ, whose holiness instead cleanses what it touches.
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Cross-references · 8
- Num 19:21–22It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
- Num 19:7–10Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 15:5–8Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 11:24–25“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 15:10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 22:6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.
- Lev 11:28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
- Lev 17:15“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
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