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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:18

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water ,.... Three stalks of hyssop bound together, as the Targum of Jonathan, and this man was to be a clean priest, according to the same; but it does not seem necessary that he should be a priest, but that anyone free from ceremonial pollution might do it: and sprinkle it upon the tent ; where there was a dead body: but this, we are told, is to be understood not of a tent made of wood, or stone, or clay, but made of anything... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:19

And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean ,.... The clean priest shall sprinkle upon the unclean man, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, he shall sprinkle the water of purification upon him that is unclean in any of the above ways: on the third day, and on the seventh day ; See Gill on Numbers 19:12 , and on the seventh day he shall purify himself ; either the unclean person, who shall perfect his purification, as Jarchi interprets it, that is, by doing what follows; or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:20

But the man that shall be unclean ,.... By touching any dead body, bone, or grave: and shall not purify himself ; with the water of purification: that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation : See Gill on Numbers 19:13 . because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord : by going into it in his uncleanness: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him, he is unclean ; and will remain so, for nothing else could purify him, see Numbers 19:13 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:21

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them ,.... To the children of Israel, throughout their generations, unto the coming of the Messiah, when the ceremonial law, which stood in divers washings and purifications, was abolished: that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes ; the priest that sprinkled, according to the Targum of Jonathan, or any other person that did it; so that the same purifying water, which made an unclean person clean, defiled a clean one;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:22

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, that was unclean by touching a dead body, bone, or grave; whatever that man touched, any vessel or thing, that was unclean also; or "whomsoever", any person, man or woman, for it respects both persons and things: and the soul that toucheth it ; that which the unclean person hath touched; or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days - How low does this lay man! He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, Leviticus 11:24 , Leviticus 11:27 , Leviticus 11:39 ; but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to mark the peculiar impurity of man, and to show his sinfulness - seven times worse than the vilest animal! O thou son of the morning, how art thou fallen! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:12

He shall purify himself with it - בו יתחטא yithchatta bo , literally, he shall sin himself with it. This Hebrew form of speech is common enough among us in other matters. Thus to fleece, to bark, and to skin, do not signify to add a fleece, another bark, or a skin, but to take one away; therefore, to sin himself, in the Hebrew idiom, is not to add sin, but to take it away, to purify. The verb חטא chata signifies to miss the mark, to sin, to purify from sin, and to make a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

Verse 11 11.He that toucheth the dead body. He now recites certain forms of pollution in which the washing was necessary; all of them, however, come to the point, that men are defiled by the touch of a corpse or, bones, or a grave. Nor is there here any distinction between the body of a person who is slain, or of one who has died in bed; whence it follows that death is here set forth as a mirror of God’s curse: And assuredly, if we consider its origin and cause, the corruption of nature,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:13

Verse 13 13.Whosoever toucheth the dead body. The severity of. the capital punishment shews how very pleasing to God is purity. If any one bad forgotten to sprinkle himself on the third or the seventh day, he might redeem his negligence by a prolongation of the term, because he only postponed his purification to another day; but it was a capital crime to enter the sanctuary in his uncleanness, since thus holy and profane things would be mixed together, nay, the altar would have been polluted as... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:22

Verse 22 22.And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth. Others translate it, — “Whosoever toucheth an unclean thing shall be unclean.” for, since the Hebrew is without a neuter gender, (26) the relative אשר, asher, and the noun הטמא , hattame, may be either masculine or neuter; and either sense would not be unsuitable; except that we gather from the second clause, that reference is rather made here to the contagion with which unclean persons infect either men or garments, or other articles. For... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 19:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 19:22

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