Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Leviticus 22:6
The soul - Rather, the person. Compare the use of the word “body” in the Prayer Book version of Psalms 53:1, and in the compounds “somebody, nobody”.
The soul - Rather, the person. Compare the use of the word “body” in the Prayer Book version of Psalms 53:1, and in the compounds “somebody, nobody”.
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...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ (App-13.) Here again rendered soul. See verses: Leviticus 22:3; Leviticus 22:4; Leviticus 22:11, and note on...
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...
_THE 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._ Shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his fle...
22:6 person (b-3) Lit. 'the soul.'...
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...
THE SOUL WHICH HATH TOUCHED. — Better, _the man who hath,_ that is, the priest for whom these laws are here enacted. Hence the ancient Chaldee version renders it “the man a priest.” SHALL BE UNCLEAN...
נֶ֚פֶשׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּגַּע ־בֹּ֔ו וְ טָמְאָ֖ה עַ
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...
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...
THE SOUL WHICH HATH TOUCHED ANY SUCH SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL EVEN,.... Which is the time fixed by the several laws for such uncleannesses, see Leviticus 11:31; AND SHALL NOT EAT OF THE HOLY THINGS, UN...
The 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. Ver. 6. _Unless he wash his face with water._] Whereby he...
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...
WARNING AGAINST PROFANATION OF HALLOWED THINGS...
the soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, according to the general rule, which thus applied to the priests also, AND SHALL NOT EAT OF THE HOLY THINGS, UNLESS HE WASH HIS FLESH...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Leviticus 22:6 person H5315 touched H5060 (H8799) unclean H2930 (H8804) evening H6153 eat H398 ...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:11; Haggai 2:13; Hebrews 10:22; Leviticus 11:24;...