Num 5:2-3, 9:6-10, 19:11-22 | TSK | STEP | put out of the camp.The camp of Israel being now formed, with the sanctuary of God in the centre, orders were given that the lepers and unclean persons should be excluded from the camp, according to the laws given at different times on these subjects. See the Marginal References.) This expulsion was founded, 1. On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated. 2. There was also a spiritual reason: the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain. 3. Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated. and every. and whosoever.

Numbers 5:2-3

put out of the camp.The camp of Israel being now formed, with the sanctuary of God in the centre, orders were given that the lepers and unclean persons should be excluded from the camp, according to the laws given at different times on these subjects. See the Marginal References.) This expulsion was founded, 1. On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated. 2. There was also a spiritual reason: the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain. 3. Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated.

12:14; Le 13:46; De 24:8,9; 2Ki 7:3

and every.

Le 15:2-27

and whosoever.

9:6-10; 19:11-16; 31:19; Le 21:1

without.

1Ki 7:3; 1Co 5:7-13; 2Co 6:17; 2Th 3:6; Tit 3:10; Heb 12:15,16

2Jo 1:10,11; Re 21:27

defile not.

19:22; Hag 2:13,14

in the midst.

Le 26:11,12; De 23:14; Ps 68:18; Isa 12:6; 2Co 6:16; Re 21:3

Numbers 9:6-10

defiled.

5:2; 6:6,7; 19:11,16,18; Le 21:11; Joh 18:28

they came.

15:33; 27:2,5; Ex 18:15,19,26; Le 24:11

we may not offer.

2; Ex 12:27; De 16:2; 2Ch 30:17-19; 1Co 5:7,8

Stand.

Ex 14:13; 2Ch 20:17

I will.

27:5; Ps 25:14; 85:8; Pr 3:5,6; Eze 2:7; 3:17; Joh 7:17; 17:8

Ac 20:27; 1Co 4:4; 11:23; Heb 3:5,6

be unclean.

6,7; Ro 15:8-19; 16:25,26; 1Co 6:9-11; Eph 2:1,2,12,13; 3:6-9

yet he shall keep.

Mt 5:24; 1Co 11:28

Numbers 19:11-22

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