This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
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This is the law when a man dieth in a tent,.... A tent is only mentioned, because the Israelites now dwelt in tents, as Aben Ezra remarks; otherwise the law holds equally good of an house as of a…
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal…
Directions are here given concerning the use and application of the ashes which were prepared for purification. they were laid up to be laid out; and therefore, though now one place would serve to…
A second use of the -water of impurity."
Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact, causes defilement.