Whoever touches the corpse of any human being shall be unclean for seven days — contact with the dead pollutes for seven days, a full week of separation. The principle is absolute: all corpses defile, regardless of kinship or holiness of the deceased. The seven-day period echoes the days of creation (Genesis 1-2) and signals that purification is a kind of re-creation, a restoration to the created order.

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