Lìwèijì 5:2

2 Huò shì yǒu rén mó le bú jié de wù , wúlùn shì bú jié de sǐ shòu , shì bú jié de sǐ xù , shì bú jié de sǐ chóng , tā què bù zhīdào , yīncǐ chéng le bú jié , jiù yǒu le zuì .

Lìwèijì 5:2 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing
Meaning an Israelite, for only such were bound by this law, which pronounced a person unclean that touched anything that was so in a ceremonial sense; this is the general, including whatsoever by the law was unclean; the particulars follow:

whether [it be] a carcass of an unclean beast,
as the camel, the coney, the hare, and the swine, ( Leviticus 11:2-3 )

or a carcass of unclean cattle;
as the horse, and the ass, which were unclean for food, and their dead carcasses not to be touched, ( Leviticus 11:26-28 )

or the carcass of unclean creeping things:
such as are mentioned in ( Leviticus 11:29-31 )

and if it be hidden from him;
that he has touched them; or the uncleanness contracted by touching, he having inadvertently done it; or being ignorant of the law concerning such uncleanness:

he also shall be unclean;
in a ceremonial sense, by thus touching them:

and guilty;
of a breach of the command which forbids the touching of them: this is by way of prolepsis or anticipation; for as yet the law concerning unclean beasts, and creeping things, and pollution by touching them, was not given: Jarchi and Gersom interpret this guilt, of eating of holy things, and going into the sanctuary when thus defiled: in the Jewish Misnah ^F23 it is said, the word "hidden" is twice used, to show that he is guilty, for the ignorance of uncleanness, and for the ignorance of the sanctuary.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Misn. Shebuot, c. 2. sect. 5.

Lìwèijì 5:2 In-Context

1 Ruò yǒu rén tīngjian fā shì de shēngyīn ( huò zuò ruò yǒu rén tīngjian jiào rén fā shì de shēngyīn ) , tā bĕn shì jiànzhèng , què bù bǎ suǒ kànjian de , suǒ zhīdào de shuō chūlai , zhè jiù shì zuì , tā yào dāndāng tāde zuìniè .

2 Huò shì yǒu rén mó le bú jié de wù , wúlùn shì bú jié de sǐ shòu , shì bú jié de sǐ xù , shì bú jié de sǐ chóng , tā què bù zhīdào , yīncǐ chéng le bú jié , jiù yǒu le zuì .

3 Huò shì tā mó le biérén de wūhuì , wúlùn shì rǎn le shénme wūhuì , tā què bù zhīdào , yī zhīdào le jiù yǒu le zuì .

4 Huò shì yǒu rén zuǐlǐ mào shī fā shì , yào xíng è , yào xíng shàn , wúlùn rén zaì shénme shì shàng mào shī fā shì , tā què bù zhīdào , yī zhīdào le jiù yào zaì zhè qízhōng de yī jiàn shàng yǒu le zuì .

5 Tā yǒu le zuì de shíhou , jiù yào chéngrèn suǒ fàn de zuì ,