Defilement And Purification

Purification of persons defiled by leprosy, Lev. 13.3,44-46. Lev. 14. Lev. 22.4-7. By various diseases, Lev. 15. Lev. 22.4. By childbirth, Lev. 12.2-8. Luk. 2.22. By being with a dead body, touching a bone or a grave, Num. 19.11-22. Num. 31.19,20. By touching the carcase of a clean animal that died of itself, Lev. 11.39,40. Lev. 17.15,16. Lev. 22.8. Or any unclean thing, Lev. 5.2-13. Lev. 11.8.24-28. Lev. 14.46-57. Lev. 15.5-11. Deu. 23.10,11. By leading the scapegoat into the wilderne , Lev. 16.26. By burning the sin offering on the day of atonement, Lev. 16.28. By sacrificing the red heifer, Num. 19.7-10. 120-134. Probably so called because the sense ascends, as it were, by degrees or steps, the first or last words of a preceding clause being repeated at the beginning of the succeeding one. Comp. Psa. 122.2,3,4; Psa. 123.3,4; Psa. 126.2,3; Psa. 129.1,2. See Jud. 5.3,19,30.