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“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
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Verse 14. Days. Almost all nations seem to have considered themselves defiled by the presence of a corpse. Virgin (Æn. vi. 149,) writes, Præterea jacet exanimum tibi corpus amici—Heu nescis! totamque incestat funere classem.
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