One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to ensure early burial, and to correct a pr…

Think, dear friends, what a solemn and yet what an irksome ordinance this must have been! Why, according to this regulation, Joseph could not have …

Whosoever toucheth the dead body. The severity of the capital punishment shows how very pleasing to God is purity.

If anyone had fo…

Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
purifieth not himself
W…

Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered the world through sin, and reigns by its power. Th…