Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 19:14
This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
14 22. A second use of the ‘water of impurity.’
Mere presence under the same roof as the dead, without actual contact, causes defilement.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
14. when a man dieth in a tent,c.The instances adduced appear very minute and trivial butimportant ends, both of a religious and of a sanitary nature, werepromoted by carrying the idea of pollution from contact with deadbodies to so great an extent. While it would effectually prevent thatEgyptianized race of Israelites imitating the superstitious custom ofthe Egyptians, who kept in their houses the mummied remains of theirancestors, it ensured a speedy interment to all, thus not onlykeeping burial places at a distance, but removing from thehabitations of the living the corpses of persons who died frominfectious disorders, and from the open field the unburied remains ofstrangers and foreigners who fell in battle.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This is the law when a man dieth in a tent,…. A tent is only mentioned, because the Israelites now dwelt in tents, as Aben Ezra remarks; otherwise the law holds equally good of an house as of a tent:
all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days; the meaning of which is, that all persons that come into a tent or house where a dead body is are equally unclean as those that were in it when it died; and the same is to be supposed of all vessels brought into it, as well as those that are in it, that is, open ones, as appears by what follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
14. In a tent This is an incidental proof that this law was given in the wilderness. The law for the tent was afterward extended by the rabbins to the entire house, ( , Septuagint), and not merely to the apartment in which the death had occurred. Modern Jews sustain the rabbins.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 19:14. Dieth in a tent Wherein they now lived; and, by parity of reason, the same law obliged them, when they came to dwell in houses. All that is in the tent, means all the persons, not all the goods; as appears from the next verse, where only uncovered vessels are declared unclean.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Reciprocal: Lev 14:54 – the law Lev 15:32 – General Lev 21:1 – There Lev 21:11 – his father Num 6:9 – and he Num 31:20 – raiment