Numbers 19:11

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Numbers 19:11 tn The form is the participle with the article functioning as a substantive: “the one who touches.”
2. Numbers 19:11 tn Heb “the dead.”
3. Numbers 19:11 tn The expression is full: לְכָל־נֶפֶשׁ אָדָם (l^ekhol nefesh ʾadam)—of any life of a man, i.e., of any person.
4. Numbers 19:11 tn The verb is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it follows only the participle used as the subject, but since the case is hypothetical and therefore future, this picks up the future time. The adjective “ceremonially” is supplied in the translation as a clarification.