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The Seriousness of Sacrilege
Commentators explain that the severe punishment was not for the act of touching a dead body, which was often an act of piety, but for the sacrilege of entering God's holy Tabernacle while unclean. The law underscored that God's holiness is absolute and that approaching Him requires purification. Willfully ignoring His prescribed remedy was an act of contempt.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 19:11–22
18th Century
Theologian
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
On Numbers 19:13–14
19th Century
Preacher
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 …
John Calvin
On Numbers 19:13
16th Century
Theologian
Whosoever toucheth the dead body. The severity of the capital punishment shows how very pleasing to God is purity.
If anyone had fo…
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John Gill
On Numbers 19:13
17th Century
Pastor
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
purifieth not himself
W…
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 19:11–22
17th Century
Minister
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…