Numbers 19:22 (BSB)

Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

From Numbers 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 19:22

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 19:22: 22. And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth. Others translate it, — “Whosoever toucheth an unclean thing shall be unclean.” for, since the Hebrew is without a neuter gender, S.M. had used the words cited by C. “Quicunque tetigerit immundum;” but C.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 19:11-22: Directions are here given concerning the use and application of the ashes which were prepared for purification. they were laid up to be laid out; and therefore, though now one place would serve to keep them in, while all Israel lay so closely encamped, yet it is probable that afterwards, when they came to Canaan, some of these ashes were kept in every town, for...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 19:22: And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,.... Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching the water of purification, but the unclean person spoken of throughout the chapter, that was unclean by touching a dead body, bone, or grave; whatever that man touched, any vessel or thing, that was unclean also; or "whomsoever", any person, man or woman, for it respects both persons...
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 19:22: And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even. (m) That is, unclean.