Num 19:11-13 | TSK | e4.org | toucheth the dead He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day ( , , ); but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal! , , , , ; , , ; ; ; ; ; ; man Heb. soul of man

‏ Numbers 19:11-13

toucheth the dead He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day (Lev 11:12, Lev 11:27, Lev 11:39); but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal! Num 19:16, Num 5:2, Num 9:6, Num 9:10, Num 31:19; Lev 11:31, Lev 21:1, Lev 21:11; Lam 4:14; Hag 2:13; Rom 5:12; 2Cor 6:17; Eph 2:1; Heb 9:14

man Heb. soul of man

He shall purify Yithchatta, literally, "he shall sin himself," i.e., not add sin, but take it away, purify. So we say to fleece, and to skin, which do not signify to add a fleece, or a skin, but to take one away. Num 19:17-18; Ps 51:7; Ezek 36:25; Acts 15:9; Rev 7:14

third day Num 31:19; Exod 19:11, Exod 19:15; Lev 7:17; Hos 6:2; 1Cor 15:3-4

purifieth Num 15:30; Lev 5:3, Lev 5:6, Lev 5:17, Lev 15:31; Heb 2:2-3, Heb 10:29; Rev 21:8, Rev 22:11, Rev 22:15

the water Num 19:9, Num 19:18, Num 8:7

his uncleanness Lev 7:20, Lev 22:3; Prov 14:32; John 8:24