John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:5
Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean ,.... Jarchi thinks this respects the measure or quantity of what is touched, as if but the quantity of a lentil or small pea, see Leviticus 11:31 , or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath ; as of a leper, a profluvious, or a dead man; Jarchi interprets it of the latter, and of the quantity which defiles, which is that of an olive; who also observes, that the phrase, "whatsoever... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 22:1-9
Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests? work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that ?to keep them from idleness they were employed in the wood-room, to pick out that which was worm-eaten, that it might not be used in the fire upon the altar; they might also be employed in the judgment of leprosy:? but, I. Those that were under any ceremonial uncleanness, which possibly they contracted by their own fault, might no so... read more