11. He that toucheth the dead body. He now recites certain forms of pollution in which the washing was necessary; all of them, however, come to the point, that men are defiled by the touch of a corpse or, bones, or a grave.

13. Whosoever toucheth the dead body. The severity of. the capital punishment shews how very pleasing to God is purity. If any one bad forgotten to sprinkle himself on the third or the seventh day, he might redeem his negligence by a prolongation of the term, because he only postponed his…

22. And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth. Others translate it, – “Whosoever toucheth an unclean thing shall be unclean.” for, since the Hebrew is without a neuter gender, the relative אשר, asher, and the noun הטמא, hattame, may be either masculine or neuter; and either sense would not be…