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It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
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The Paradox of Purification
Commentators note a paradox in this verse: the very water that purifies an unclean person makes the clean person who administers it unclean. John Gill suggests this highlights the imperfection of the Old Testament rituals and, more profoundly, points to the work of Jesus. Christ's cleansing blood is effective precisely because He was 'made sin for us,' taking on defilement to make us clean.
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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 it shall be a perpetual statute unto them To the children of Israel, throughout their generations, until the com…
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