if a soule touch] See the first Annot. on this Chapter.
uncleane and guilty] Ceremonially uncleane, and guilty of the breach of a Ceremoniall law, though he knew it not; yet the conscience was not defiled by such casuall accidents, nor by any thing without the man, Matth. 15. vers. 11. 18. unlesse by wilfull ignorance, or inconsideration; so as there was a Ceremoniall cleansing, Numbers 19:6,&c. for the touch it selfe, whether ignorantly, or knowingly committed; there was by inconsideration or carelesnesse a Morall guilt contracted, in which respect he was to bring a Trespasse-offering, as is here expressed.