Leviticus 22:4-6 KJV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 22:5

Creeping things - i. e. dead vermin. Compare Leviticus 11:29. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 22:6

The soul - Rather, the person. Compare the use of the word “body” in the Prayer Book version of Psalms 53:1, and in the compounds “somebody, nobody”. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:1-16

Rules concerning priests (21:1-22:16)Priests carried a heavy responsibility in acting on the people’s behalf in offering their sacrifices, and therefore they had to guard against ceremonial uncleanness. They were to have nothing to do with the burial of the dead, except in the case of close relatives, and were not to make public show of their sorrow by disfiguring themselves. They and their families were to be blameless in all things moral (21:1-9).Rules for the high priest were even stricter... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 22:4

the dead. Hebrew. nephesh ( App-13 ), rendered "soul" in preceding verse. Heb = "a dead soul". Compare Leviticus 22:11 . seed goeth. See Leviticus 15:16 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 22:6

soul. Hebrew. nephesh. ( App-13 .) Here again rendered soul. See verses: Leviticus 22:3 , Leviticus 22:4 , Leviticus 22:11 , and note on Leviticus 19:28 . wash = bathe. See note on Leviticus 14:9 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 22:4

Leviticus 22:4. What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper— These defilements, spoken of at large in the 15th chapter, were to seclude the priests from all public offices, in the same manner as they secluded common Israelites from the general intercourse of life. The words, whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, are rendered by Houbigant, whoever shall touch any uncleanness of a funeral: they might more literally be rendered, whoso toucheth any unclean thing of the dead; and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 22:4

4-6. wash his flesh with water—Any Israelite who had contracted a defilement of such a nature as debarred him from the enjoyment of his wonted privileges, and had been legally cleansed from the disqualifying impurity, was bound to indicate his state of recovery by the immersion of his whole person in water. Although all ceremonial impurity formed a ground of exclusion, there were degrees of impurity which entailed a longer or shorter period of excommunication, and for the removal of which... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 22:1-9

Things that profane a priest 22:1-9A selection of seven laws appears between a brief introduction (Leviticus 22:1-2) and a conclusion (Leviticus 22:9). The priests could, of course, become defiled like any other Israelites, but no priest who had become ceremonially unclean was to touch or eat the holy things (the tabernacle furniture, sacrifices, etc.). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 22:1-33

3. The third list of regulations for priests ch. 22The previous section (Leviticus 21:16-24) named physical impediments that prohibited some priests from offering sacrifices. This one identifies the circumstances under which priests could neither officiate at the sacrifices nor eat priestly food. Twenty-eight selected laws (7 x 4) compose this section. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 22:1-33

Laws relating to the Priesthood and Sacrifice (continued)1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly family.10. Stranger] i.e. one not a priest, nor a member of a priest’s family, even though he be an Israelite: see Exodus 29:33. A slave purchased outright is considered to be a member of the family (Leviticus 22:11).14. Unwittingly] not knowing, perhaps, that it was a holy tiling: see on Leviticus 4:2;... read more