But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
All this relates to the peace-offerings: it is the repetition and explication of what we had before, with various additions. I. The nature and intention of the peace-offerings are here more distinctly opened. They were offered either, 1. In thankfulness for some special mercy received, such as recovery from sickness, preservation in a journey, deliverance at sea, redemption out of captivity, all which are specified in Ps.
Commenting on Leviticus 7:11-34
Moreover, the soul that shall touch any unclean thing,.... Person or thing, the dead body of a man, or the bone of a dead body, or a grave in which it was laid: as the uncleanness of man; the issue that runs from a profluvious person: or any unclean beast; that was so by the law ceremonial; see Lev 11:4, or any abominable unclean thing...
cut off from his people--that is, excluded from the privileges of an Israelite--lie under a sentence of excommunication.