2Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
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And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. …
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)I. The offences here supposed are, 1. A man’s concealing the truth when he was sworn as a witness to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Judges among the Jews had power to adjure not only the witnesses, as with us, but the person suspected (contrary to a rule of our law, that no man is bound to accuse himself), as appears by the high priest adjuring our Saviour, who thereu…
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