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Selected Verse: Leviticus 10:5 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Le 10:5	King James	So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Coats - See Exo 28:39. Life had been extinguished as if by a flash of lightning, but neither the bodies nor the dresses were destroyed.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Coats - See Exo 28:39. Life had been extinguished as if by a flash of lightning, but neither the bodies nor the dresses were destroyed.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
In their coats - In the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done, either, as a testimony of respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or, because being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

In their coats - In the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done, either, as a testimony of respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or, because being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Carried them in their coats out of the camp - The modern impropriety of burying the dead within towns, cities, or places inhabited, had not yet been introduced; much less that abomination, at which both piety and common sense shudder, burying the dead about and even within places dedicated to the worship of God!

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Carried them in their coats out of the camp - The modern impropriety of burying the dead within towns, cities, or places inhabited, had not yet been introduced; much less that abomination, at which both piety and common sense shudder, burying the dead about and even within places dedicated to the worship of God!

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