toucheth the dead. He who touches a dead beast was only unclean for one day

Leviticus 11:12,27,39 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you...

but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, an the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!

Numbers 19:16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave...

Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue...

Numbers 9:6,10 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day...

Numbers 31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain...

Leviticus 11:31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever does touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 21:1,11 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them...

Lamentations 4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Haggai 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said...

Romans 5:12 Why, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed on all men, for that all have sinned:

2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

Ephesians 2:1 And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God...

man. heb. soul of man