cut off] So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy people; but as a polluted and excommunicated person: some hold that if it were known, he was to be put to death by the Sentence of the Judge, if unknown, by the Judgement of God; except in case of ignorance, for then if he touched any uncleane thing, and knew it not, he was (when he knew it) to offer a sacrifice for it, Levit. 5. vers. 3, 6.