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Numbers 19:11

Numbers 19:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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

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