sever out] Because those people were uncleane according to the Law, Numbers 19:11. men of continuall] Heb. men of continuance. the land to bury] Partly that the holy Land should not be polluted, and partly for the compassion that the children of God have even on their enemies. with the passengers] Taking the helpe of strangers whom they shall meet with in the way, because a Jew should be defiled by such an act.