Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave.
Commentaries
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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…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
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…
John Gill
JohnGill
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water ,
&c.] Three stalks of hyssop bound together, as the T…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes