This is the law, when a man dies in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Days. Almost all nations seem to have considered themselves defiled by the presence of a corpse. Virgin (Æneid, vi. 149,) writes, Præterea jacet exanimum tibi corpus amici
Heu nescis! totamque incest at funere classem.
