Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Leviticus 22:5
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CREEPING THINGS - i. e. dead vermin. Compare Leviticus 11:29....
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Care to be exercised in holy things (Leviticus 22:1)_ 2. Care in the enforcement of the law of offerings (Leviticus 22:17) Uncleanness such as mentioned in the first part of the chap...
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS as to the priests-' use of holy things, _i.e._ objects sacrificed or vowed. Temporary uncleanness, touching a corpse (Numbers 5:2 *) or an unclean object, as distinct from bodily...
PRIESTLY SEPARATION FROM CEREMONIAL UNCLEANNESS 22:1-10 TEXT 22:1-10 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things...
_WHAT MAN SOEVER OF THE SEED OF AARON IS A LEPER, OR HATH A RUNNING ISSUE; HE SHALL NOT EAT OF THE HOLY THINGS, UNTIL HE BE CLEAN. AND WHOSO TOUCHETH ANY THING THAT IS UNCLEAN BY THE DEAD, OR A MAN WH...
LAWS RELATING TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE (CONTINUED) 1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly famil...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
OR WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH ANY CREEPING THING. — See Leviticus 11:24. OR A MAN OF WHOM HE MAY TAKE UNCLEANNESS. — Better, _or a man who is unclean to him,_ that is, who is a leper (see Leviticus 13:45), or...
אֹו ־אִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִגַּ֔ע בְּ כָל ־שֶׁ֖רֶץ
THE LAW OF PRIESTLY HOLINESS Leviticus 21:1; Leviticus 22:1 THE conception of Israel as a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, was concretely represented in a threefold division of the people, -the con...
Instructions already given are now repeated with greater detail and wider application. Not only must the priest himself be free from blemish and defilement, he must see to it that all that which he of...
_Or any. Hebrew, "or a man who may contaminate," as lepers, &c. (Menochius)_...
Though some pollutions here spoken of, were in their nature greater than others; yet it is well to observe, that all equally disqualified from approaching the sanctuary. And what did these things teac...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 AND 22. Chapter 21 specially presents what becomes the priests as set apart for Jehovah: this more intimate nearness supposed a conduct corresponding with...
OR WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH ANY CREEPING THING, WHEREBY HE MAY BE MADE UNCLEAN,.... Jarchi thinks this respects the measure or quantity of what is touched, as if but the quantity of a lentil or small pea, s...
Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; Ver. 5. _Or a man._] Whether a leper, or a dead man...
1 The Priests in their vncleannesse must abstaine from the holy things. 6 How they shall bee cleansed. 10 Who of the Priests house may eate of the holy things. 17 The sacrifices must be without ble...
or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, any one of the lower forms of animal life whose contact defiled a man, OR A MAN OF WHOM HE MAY TAKE UNCLEANNESS, WHATSOEVER UN...
WARNING AGAINST PROFANATION OF HALLOWED THINGS...
NO PROFANING OF SEPARATED THINGS (VV. 1-16) Aaron and his sons were always in close proximity to those things that had been separated for sacred purposes. They were therefore to be careful as to thei...
Leviticus 22:5 whoever H376 touches H5060 (H8799) thing H8318 unclean H2930 (H8799) person H120 unclean H2930 ...
FOR PRIESTS, DISCERNMENT OF UNCLEANNESS IS VITAL. THEY MUST NOT APPROACH YAHWEH WHILE UNCLEAN LEST THEY DIE (LEVITICUS 22:2). Leviticus 22:2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate thems...
CONTENTS: Separation of the priests; perfection of the sacrifices. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron and sons. CONCLUSION: Those contract great guilt who profane sacred things, doing in their own unclea...
Leviticus 22:4. _Unclean._ The injunctions in this and the following verses, though not literally binding on christians, yet the holy law from whence they emanate is not to be disregarded. Every infir...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 22:4 For the background of these rules, see Leviticus 11:1; Leviticus 13:1;...
Priestly Privileges Forfeited by Uncleanness SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 22:1.—Profane not My holy name in those things which they hallow unto Me. Holy things must not be touched with unclean hands...
EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1, (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) declares who m...
Now in the twenty-second chapter he deals with the priests and the things that they could eat. You see the things that were brought in sacrifice; a portion of them became meat for the priest. So the q...
Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 11:43; Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 15:19;...