* toucheth the dead.
   He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day,
   (Le 11:12, 27, 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!

  16  5:2  9:6,10  31:19  Le 11:31  21:1,11  La 4:14  Hag 2:13 
  Ro 5:12  2Co 6:17  Eph 2:1  Heb 9:14 
 * man.  Heb. soul of man.