Num 19:11, 31:19 | TSK | STEP | 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! man. Heb. soul of man.

Numbers 19:11

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.

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