and 16,000 people.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Whoever touches<n id="1" /> the corpse<n id="2" /> of any person<n id="3" /> will be ceremonially unclean<n id="4" /> seven days.

The people were 16,000, of which the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s tribute was 32 people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is the law: When a man dies<n id="1" /> in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields,<n id="1" /> or the body of someone who died of natural causes,<n id="2" /> or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">God is not a man, that he should lie,p> <p class="poetry">nor a human being,<n id="1" /> that he should change his mind.p> <p class="poetry">Has he said, and will he not do it?p> <p class="poetry">Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?<n id="2" />p>

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">It happened that some men<n id="1" /> who were ceremonially defiled<n id="2" /> by the dead body of a man<n id="3" /> could not keep<n id="4" /> the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

And those men said to him, &#8220;We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?&#8221;