Leviticus 22:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

Leviticus 22:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Leviticus 15:5
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 16:24-28
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. …
Leviticus 11:24-25
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. …
Numbers 19:7-10
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. …

Topics

Hygiene Purification Sanitation Scab Uncleanness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests’ work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that “to keep them from idleness they were employed in the wood-room, to pick out that which was worm-eaten, that it might not be used in the fire upon the altar; they might also be employed in the judgment of leprosy:” but, I. Those that were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

4-6. wash his flesh with water--Any Israelite who had contracted a defilement of such a nature as debarred him from the enjoyment of his wonted privileges, and had been legally cleansed from the disqualifying impurity, was bound to indicate his state of recovery by the immersion of his whole person in water. Although all ceremonial impurity formed a ground of exclusion, there were degrees of impur…