Numbers 9 – How long is a person defiled when they touch a dead body? 2023

Num 9:7
And those men said to him, "Though we are unclean because of the dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?"

When someone touches a human corpse, he is defiled for a period of seven days (Num. 19:11-12). Defilement was added to by the Talmud (oral torah) by the time of Yeshua. They had added a law that said if you enter a building with Gentiles in it, you are unclean for that day. John 18:28). That sounds a little condescending and hateful...