Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Numbers 19:11-22
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to insure early burial, and to correct a practice not uncommon in the East, of leaving the deal to be devoured by the wild beasts.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 19:17:
Leviticus 14:5
Zechariah 13:1
Hebrews 9:13
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