¹⁶ “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death,^(A) or anyone who touches a human bone^(B) or a grave,^(C) will be unclean for seven days.^(D)

8 “‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones^(A) of the people of Jerusalem will be removed^(B) from their graves. ² They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served^(C) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.^(D) They will not be gathered up or buried,^(E) but will be like dung lying on the ground.^(F)