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…

He shall purify himself, and wash ... — The rendering should be, he (i.e., the clean person) shall purify hi…

This ordinance was partly sanitary. The Egyptians were accustomed to keep their dead in their houses, preserved as mummies. No Jew could do that, b…

And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean
The clean priest shall sprinkle upon the unclean man, as the Ta…

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…