{"id":381,"date":"2014-05-08T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manual4life.org\/en\/?p=381"},"modified":"2014-05-08T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:36:51","slug":"numbers-66-dead-person-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/numbers-66-dead-person-dead-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers 6:6 &#8211; A dead person &#8211; a dead body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The text:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Throughout the period of their dedication to the LORD, the Nazirite must not go near a <strong>dead body<\/strong> \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 (Numbers 6:6)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A dead body<\/strong> is the translation of two Hebrew words in this verse, i.e. <strong>soul<\/strong> and the verb <strong>to kill \u2013 to die<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe Hebrew says literally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2026 he shall not go near a <strong>dead soul<\/strong> (or <strong>deceased soul<\/strong>).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A second text:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human <strong>corpse<\/strong>, they defile the LORD\u2019s tabernacle. \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 (Numbers 19:13)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here too a <strong>corpse<\/strong> is the translation of the same two words in Hebrew and it says literally<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Anyone who touches a <strong>dead soul<\/strong> (or <strong>deceased soul<\/strong>), any person, who has died \u2026<em><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The expression <strong>\u2018a dead soul\u2019<\/strong> for someone who has died only appears in these two verses, both in the book of Numbers.<\/p>\n<p>A theologian, who had also studied ancient Egypt, remarked in an article that this expression is typical of ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>For him, this was <strong>the confirmation that Moses<\/strong>\u00b8 who had been brought up at the court of the Egyptian pharaoh from childhood, was <strong>the author of the first five books of the Old Testamen<\/strong>t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Print this study as a PDF document:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manual4life.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Numbers-6-a-dead-person-a-dead-body.pdf\">Numbers 6:6 &#8211; A dead person &#8211; a dead body.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text: Throughout the period of their dedication to the LORD, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 (Numbers 6:6) A dead body is the translation of two Hebrew words in this verse, i.e. soul and the verb to kill \u2013 to die. The Hebrew says literally: \u2026 he shall not go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delevensschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}