8 YOU must not eat any of their flesh, and YOU must not touch their dead body.+ They are unclean for YOU.+

9 Now it came about in the fifth year of Je·hoiʹa·kim+ the son of Jo·siʹah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month,+ that all the people in Jerusalem and all the people that were coming in from the cities of Judah into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before Jehovah.+