the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Çölde Sayım 19:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 19:9, Psalms 51:7, Ezekiel 36:25-27, John 15:2, John 15:3, John 17:17, John 17:19, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Hebrews 9:14
Reciprocal: Exodus 12:22 - a bunch Leviticus 14:4 - hyssop Leviticus 14:7 - sprinkle Numbers 9:6 - defiled Numbers 19:12 - He shall purify Numbers 19:13 - the water 1 Kings 4:33 - the hyssop 2 Kings 23:14 - the bones of men John 19:29 - hyssop Hebrews 9:19 - hyssop Hebrews 10:22 - sprinkled
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,.... Three stalks of hyssop bound together, as the Targum of Jonathan, and this man was to be a clean priest, according to the same; but it does not seem necessary that he should be a priest, but that anyone free from ceremonial pollution might do it:
and sprinkle it upon the tent; where there was a dead body: but this, we are told, is to be understood not of a tent made of wood, or stone, or clay, but made of anything woven, as linen: or of skins u:
and upon all the vessels; in such a tent, that is, open ones, as before observed:
and upon the persons that were there: when the man died in it, or came into it since, and while the dead body was in it;
and upon him that touched a bone; of a dead man, or, as the Targum of Jonathan, the bone of a living man that is separated from him:
or one slain, or one dead; slain with a sword, or dead of the pestilence, as the same Targum, or of any other disease, or in any other way:
or a grave; or the covering or side of one, as the same Targum adds.
u Maimon. in Misn. Sabbat, c. 2. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal to be devoured by the wild beasts.