So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
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So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
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So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
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So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
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- Leviticus 8:13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 10:5 So they went near, and carried them…
Lev 10:5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
Ver. 5. In their coats.] These were not burnt, as neither were their bodies: the fire, being of a celestial and subtile nature, might pierce their inward parts, not touching their outward; as lightning kills by piercing, not by burning. {a}
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{a} Tostat.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In their coats; in the holy garments wherein they…
In their coats; in the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done either,
1. As a testimony of a respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or,
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2. Because being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So they went near,.... To the place where the…
So they went near,.... To the place where the bodies lay, having an order from Moses so to do, let them have been where they will:
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said; or bid them do; they took them up in their clothes as they found them, and carried them in them; not that these men carried them in their own coats, but in the coats of the dead, as Jarchi expresses it; and had them without the camp, and there buried them, probably in their coats in which they had sinned, and in which they died: the Targum of Jonathan says, they carried them on iron hooks in their coats, and buried them without the camp.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In their coats - In the holy garments wherein…
In their coats - In the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done, either,
1. as a testimony of respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or,
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2. because being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Carried them in their coats out of…
Verse 5. Carried them in their coats out of the camp] The modern impropriety of burying the dead within towns, cities, or places inhabited, had not yet been introduced; much less that abomination, at which both piety and common sense shudder, burying the dead about and even within places dedicated to the worship of God!
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 10:5. In their coats — In the holy…
Lev 10:5. In their coats — In the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done, either, 1st, As a testimony of respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or, 2d, Because, being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Coats - See Exo 28:39. Life had been extinguished…
Coats - See Exo 28:39. Life had been extinguished as if by a flash of lightning, but neither the bodies nor the dresses were destroyed.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. In their coats — Their apparel, being defiled…
5. In their coats — Their apparel, being defiled by contact with dead bodies, could not be retained for the use of their brothers or successors in office. Aaron was not permitted to die in his pontifical robes, in order that they might be worn by Eleazar. Num_20:26.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. their coats] their priestly garments. See on Lev_8:13.
5. their coats] their priestly garments. See on Lev_8:13.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) And carried them in their coats.—Better, and they…
(5) And carried them in their coats.—Better, and they carried them in their tunics, the long white, garments in which they ministered, and which were the most characteristic part of the sacerdotal vestments. In ordinary cases the cast-off dresses of the priests were converted into wick for the lamps of the sanctuary, but in this case they were buried with the persons, for, apart from their becoming unclean by their contact with the corpses, no one would have used them, having been worn at a time of so awful a visitation.
Out of the camp.—Burial places in ancient times were outside the towns in open fields. (See Gen_23:9; Gen_23:17; Mat_27:7; Luk_8:27.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They went near, and carried them in their coats…
They went near, and carried them in their coats out of the comp. Their coats were the tunics which they had put on as their priestly attire. (Lev_8:13) The lightning flash which had struck them down had not injured their clothes. As Mishael and Elzaphan became ceremonially defiled by contact with the corpses, and as the Passover was now at hand, it has been thought that it was in reference to their case that the concession was made, that those d, filed by a dead body might keep the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second instead of the first month. (Num_9:6-11) The defilement caused by death ceased when Christ had died.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 So they came near
So they came near
"So Mishael and Elzaphan came near"
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carried them, still wearing their priestly tunics
carried the bodies of Nadab and Abihu, which still had on the priestly tunics
Eleazar ... Ithamar
These are the names of Aaron's sons. (See: How to Translate Names)
Do not let your hair on your heads hang loosely, and do not tear your clothes
Yahweh is telling Aaron and his sons not to show any outward signs of grief or mourning. (See: Symbolic Action)
so that you may not die
"so that you will not die"
not be angry with all the assembly
Here "assembly" means the whole congregation of Israel, not just a group of leaders. AT: "not be angry with all the people of Israel" (See: Synecdoche)
the entire house of Israel
Here "house" represents the people. AT: "all the people of Israel" (See: Metonymy)
for those whom the fire of Yahweh has set ablaze
"for those whom Yahweh killed with his fire"
translationWords
priest
tunic
Moses
Aaron
Eleazar
die
Yahweh
anger
assembly
house
Israel
mourn
fire
tent of meeting
anoint
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:5 Carrying the bodies by their garments avoided defilement.
10:5 Carrying the bodies by their garments avoided defilement.
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