And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
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Gill's Exposition
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean,.... Not the person unclean by sprinkling, or touching the water of purification, but the unclean person spoken of throughout the chapter,…
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.
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