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and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
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A Law for Public Health
Commentators note the practical, sanitary benefit of this law. By making a corpse and everything near it ceremonially unclean, God encouraged the Israelites to practice prompt and distant burials. This stood in contrast to other cultures that kept mummified dead in their homes or buried them within city walls, thus promoting public health.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water , &c.] Three stalks of hyssop bound together, as the T…
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