Lev 21:1, Num 9:6-10, 19:11-16, 31:19 | TSK | STEP | Of the priests' mourning. Of their holiness. Of their marriages. Of their estimation. Of the priest's daughter convicted of whoredom. Of the high priest's holiness. Of his marriage. The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary. Speak. There.

toucheth the dead.He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, (Le 11:12, 27, 39;) but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!

16; 5:2; 9:6,10; 31:19; Le 11:31; 21:1,11; La 4:14; Hag 2:13

Ro 5:12; 2Co 6:17; Eph 2:1; Heb 9:14

man. Heb. soul of man.

He shall purify."Yithchatta," literally, "he shall sin himself," i.e., not add sin, but take it away, purify. So we say to fleece, and to skin, which do not signify to add a fleece, or a skin, but to take one away.

17,18; Ps 51:7; Eze 36:25; Ac 15:9; Re 7:14

third day.

31:19; Ex 19:11,15; Le 7:17; Ho 6:2; 1Co 15:3,4

purifieth.

15:30; Le 5:3,6,17; 15:31; Heb 2:2,3; 10:29; Re 21:8; 22:11,15

the water.

9,18; 8:7

his uncleanness.

Le 7:20; 22:3; Pr 14:32; Joh 8:24

31:20; Le 11:32; 14:36

toucheth.

11; 31:19

a bone.

Eze 39:11-16

a grave.

Mt 23:27; Lu 11:44

Numbers 31:19

abide.Though the Israelites had acted by the commission of God, yet they had contracted pollution by touching the dead; and the spoil having been used by idolaters, must also be purified in the prescribed manner.

5:2; 19:11-22; 1Ch 22:8