- + *Þ N OD M B E R , 7 Chap. XX: of the LORD, the water of ſeparation hath not been , congregation,and * they fell upon theirfaces: and * the ſprinkled upon him, he is unclean. | glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
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* Exod» 2 And the people * chode with Moſes, and ſpake, and aÞfiCftions of our parents and of us their children, which doubt- 27.2 faving, Wou!d God that we had died * when our bre- | leſs have come to thine ears. . Chap. by thren died before the LORD g. 15 How our fachers went down into Egypt, and we hl ">. (:. e. ) Suddenly,rather than todie ſuch a lingring and painful | have dweltin Egypta long: time: and the Egyptians 16 32,35 oo ens en _—_ greater than _ Paren*s in like caſe, | yexed us and our fathers, 132, becauſe they ſhould have taken warning by their miſcariiages, and X - - + | ” by the terrible effes ofthem, which their eyes had ſeen. « 16 And _ we cried unto the LORD, he heard _ Exod.17, 4 And * why have ye breught up the congregation | ur — ent = angel, and hath brought us forth 3. 7+ 3. of the LORD into this wiiderneſs,that we andour car- | 92 Ot Egypt and behoid, we are in Kadcſh y, a city
k (5. e. ) Shal contempruouſly refuſe to ſubmit to this way of purification.
21 And it ſhal be a perpetual ſtatute unto them that he that ſprinklech the water of ſeparation ihal waſh his clothes i; and he that toucheth the water of ſeparation
7 ſhal be unclean until even.
1 Becauſe he is unclean, as it here follows. It is ſtrange, that the ſame water ſhould cleanſe one perſon, and defile another, but God would have it ſo, partly to teach us that it did not cleanſe by any vertue in it ſelf, or in the work done, but only by vertue of Gods appointment : partly to mind the Jews of the imperfeQtion of their Prieſthood, and their ritual purifications and expiations, and con- ſequently of the neceſſity of a better Prieſt and Sacrifice and way of purifying, which rheſe outward Rites did point at : and partly to ihew that the etficacy of Gods ordinances doth not depend upon the p:rſon or quality ofhis Miniſters, becauſe the ſame perſon who was polluted himſelf could and did cleanſe others. # Either by ſprinkling of ir, or by being ſprinkled with it, for even he that was cleanſed by it, was not fully cleanſed as ſoon as he was ſprinkled, but only at the even of that day, as isfaid here and above, wer.19.
22 And whatſoever the unciean perſon » toucheth, ſhal be unclean : and the ſoul that toucheth ir ſhal be
unclean o until even p.
1 Not he who is ſo onely by touching the water of ſeparation, wer. 21. but he who is ſo by the greater tort of uncleannets, which lated ſeven days, of which verſe 11, 16. and which was not remo- ved without the uſe of this water of purification,as is manifeſt from the context and other places of Scripture,and from the nature of the thing : For the leſſer ſort of uncleanneſs, mentioned in the forego- ing verſe, laſted: only till even,and was cleanſed by the ſole wathing of his clothes and fleſh in water verſe 79. withour any uſe of this water of purification, which, ifit had be?n neceſſary, muſt have beenuſed on the third, and on the ſeventh day, according to the rule, verſe 12. 19. and ſo the uncleanneſs of one day had been made an uncleanpels of (even days, which is a cont. adiftion. Betides 1t is unreaſonable,that he who immediately rouched the defiling thing ſhould be no more and longer unclean, than he » ho couched ttar perſon on'y; and it is contrary to other rules in like caſes,as Lever. 15.where the Man or Woman having an iſſue are thereby made un-
_ for ag" Heme” a but ay OO EY iS —_ che eyes of the children of Hrae' P, therefore ye ihal yt unclean only till even, werſ- 7. 27. And therefore this cannot be © . W's :37- & 32 ED wks as dds by touching this water, who-di Bone bring this congregation into the land which I have .;. & 32: ſelf was unclean only till even, verſe 21. as alſo he who roucherh | 81VEN them. : | ; |: Ir
him is in this place. o To ſignifie to us, the very infe&iqous nature » But ſhewed your infidelity : which they did, either by their t Heb. nof
of ſin and of ſinful company. p Becauſe as his cefilement was leſs, ſo it was fit the duration of it ſhould be ſhorter. CHAP AX.
The people journey in the wilderneſs of Zin : They murmur againſt. Moſes for want of water, 2----5.” God commandeth Moſes to ſpeak to the Rock, that it might yield water, 6, 7. Moſes ſtriking the Rock twice, 8-----11. diſpleaſethGod, 12, Moſes deſiring paſſage through Edom, 1 3-===17. # denied, 18---- 20. Aaron by Gods command delivering up his Office to Eleazar his Son, dieth, 21---28. All the Congregation bemoan him.
Hen 4 came the children of iſrael. ever the whole congregation, into the deſert of Zin 6b , in the firit moneth c, and the people abode in Kadeſh 4; and
Miriam died there e, and was buried there,
a To wit, after many other ſtations and long journeys here o- mitted, bur particular'y deſcribed, Numb. 33, b A place near the land of Edom, diſtin& and di'tant from that Sin, Exod. i6. 1. c To wit, of the fortieth year, as is evident, becauſe the next ſtation to this was in mount Hor, where Azron died, verſe 22, 23, ic. who dicd in the fifth month of the fortieth year, Numb. 33. 38. Moſes doth not giveus an exact journal of all their occurrences in the wi!- derneſs, but only of thoſe which were moſt remarka le, and efpe- cially of thoſe which happened in the firſt an ſecond, and in the fortieth year. 4 Whether the ſame pJ-c- called Kad.ſh-barnea,w here they were long ſince, Numb. 13, 26. and ro which they now return afrer 38 yea-s tecious travels and wandrings in the deſert, Det. 2. 14. Or another place more ſoutherly, it 1- not marerial. e Four months before Aaron, and but a few more before Moſes. |
2 And there was no water for the cor.g'egation f : and they gathered themſcives together againſt Moſes, and againſt Aaron.
f Which having follow2d them through all their former jour- neys, began now to fail them here, becauſe they vere now come near Canaan and other countreys, where waters might be had by ordinary means, and therefore God wou'd nor uſe extraordinary, leſt he ſhonJd ſ.em to proſtitute the honour of miracles. This © 0- ry, though like that, Exod. 17. is different from it, as appears by divers circumſtances.
tel ſhould die there ?