Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 10:5
So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
5. their coats ] their priestly garments. See on Lev 8:13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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!
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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,
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(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.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
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
a Tostat.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
as = according as.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Lev 10:2 – they died 1Ki 13:28 – the lion had
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.