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出エジプト記 19:10
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sanctify: Exodus 19:15, Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 11:45, Joshua 3:5, Joshua 7:13, 1 Samuel 16:5, 2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 30:17-19, Job 1:5, 1 Corinthians 6:11
wash: Exodus 19:14, Genesis 35:2, Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 15:5, Numbers 8:7, Numbers 8:21, Numbers 31:24, Zechariah 3:3, Zechariah 3:4, Hebrews 10:22, Revelation 7:14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:8 - wash his Leviticus 21:8 - sanctify Numbers 11:18 - Sanctify Numbers 31:20 - raiment 2 Chronicles 5:11 - sanctified 2 Chronicles 30:15 - and sanctified 2 Chronicles 35:6 - sanctify Nehemiah 12:30 - themselves Psalms 76:8 - didst Joel 2:16 - sanctify John 11:55 - to purify Acts 21:24 - and purify
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... On the fourth day, according to the Targum of Jonathan;
go unto the people; go down from the mountain, from the top of it, where he now was, to the camp of Israel, which was pitched before it:
and sanctify them today and tomorrow; the fourth and fifth days of the month; that is, he was, to instruct them how they were to sanctify themselves in an external way, by washing themselves, as after mentioned, their bodies and clothes, and by abstaining from all sensual pleasures, lawful or unlawful:
and let them wash their clothes; which the Jews understood not of their garments, but of their bodies also; teaching them by these outward things the necessity of internal purity and holiness, to appear before God: these outward rites were in use before the law of Moses, as appears from Genesis 35:2 and the Heathens themselves have similar notions of the cleanness of bodies and garments, as well as the purity of mind, being acceptable to their deities n.
n "Casta placent superis, pura cum veste venito". Tibullus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Sanctify them - The injunction involves bodily purification and undoubtedly also spiritual preparation. Compare Hebrews 10:22. The washing of the clothes was an outward symbol well understood in all nations.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 19:10. Sanctify them — See the meaning of this term, Exodus 13:2.
Let them wash their clothes — And consequently bathe their bodies; for, according to the testimony of the Jews, these always went together.
It was necessary that, as they were about to appear in the presence of God, every thing should be clean and pure about them; that they might be admonished by this of the necessity of inward purity, of which the outward washing was the emblem.
From these institutions the heathens appear to have borrowed their precepts relative to washings and purifications previously to their offering sacrifice to their gods, examples of which abound in the Greek and Latin writers. They washed their hands and clothes, and bathed their bodies in pure water, before they performed any act of religious worship; and in a variety of cases, abstinence from all matrimonial connections was positively required, before a person was permitted to perform any religious rite, or assist at the performance.