Leviticus 10:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. Carried them in their coats out of the camp - The modern impropriety of burying the dead within towns, cities, or places inhabited, had not yet been introduced; much less that abomination, at which both piety and common sense shudder, burying the dead about and even within places dedicated to the worship of God!