If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community.”

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Unclean beast - that is, carrion of any kind. See Leviticus 11:0.

Shall be cut off - See the Exodus 31:14 note.

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

But the soul that eateth, etc. — Anyone who partakes of the Lord’s holy peace offering in a state of legal defilement, ar…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Moreover, the soul that shall touch any unclean [thing] ,
&c.] Person or thing, the dead body of a man, or the bone …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Regarding the peace-offerings, God allowed them more freedom in expressing their sense of mercy than in expressing their sense of sin, so that thei…