Leviticus 22:4

“What man soever of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper, etc.] A young, or an old man, as the Targum of Jonathan, and indeed man or woman; for the wives and daughters of the priests, if in this, and other circumstances following, might not eat of the holy things until cleansed, who otherwise might, (see <031302>Leviticus 13:2 <041813>Numbers 18:13); or hath a running issue; a gonorrhoea, whether man or woman, (<031502>Leviticus 15:2,25); he shall not eat of the holy things until he be clean; he might eat of the tithes, but not of the wave breast, or heave shoulder: and whoso toucheth any [that is] unclean [by] the dead; not only that touched the dead, which made unclean, but that touched any…”

“wash his flesh with water--Any Israelite who had contracted a defilement of such a nature as debarred him from the enjoyment of his wonted privileges, and had been legally cleansed from the disqualifying impurity, was bound to indicate his state of recovery by the immersion of his whole person in water. Although all ceremonial impurity formed a ground of exclusion, there were degrees of impurity which entailed a longer or shorter period of excommunication, and for the removal of which different rites required to be observed according to the trivial or the malignant nature of the case. A person who came inadvertently into contact with an unclean animal was rendered unclean for a specified…”

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“the seed: These words include the daughters as well as the sons of Aaron. a leper: Lev 13:2, Lev 13:3, Lev 13:44-46 running issue: Heb. running of the reins, Lev 15:2, Lev 15:3 holy things: Lev 2:3, Lev 2:10, Lev 6:25-29, Lev 21:22; Num 18:9, Num 18:19 until: Lev. 14:2-32, Lev 15:13-15 unclean: Lev 21:1; Num 19:11-16 whose: Lev 15:16 Leviticus 22:5”