toucheth the dead: He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day (Leviticus 11:12, Leviticus 11:27, Leviticus 11:39); but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal! Numbers 19:16, Numbers 5:2, Numbers 9:6, Numbers 9:10, Numbers 31:19; Leviticus 11:31, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:11; Lamentations 4:14; Haggai 2:13; Romans 5:12; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 2:1; Hebrews 9:14
man: Heb. soul of man