And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.

And they went near, and carried them in their vests out of the camp, as Moses had said.

and they come near, and bear them in their coats unto the outside of the camp, as Moses hath spoken.

So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said.

So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.

And moving quickly, they took them as they lay, vested with linen tunics, and cast them outside, just as had been commanded them.

Accesserunt ergo, et exportaverunt eos cum suis tunicis extra castra, quemadmodum praeceperat Moses.

Coats - See Exodus 28:39. Life had been extinguished as if by a flash of lightning, but neither the bodies nor the dresses were destroyed.

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!

So they went near,.... To the place where the bodies lay, having an order from Moses so to do, let them have been where they will:
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said; or bid them do; they took them up in their clothes as they found them, and carried them in them; not that these men carried them in their own coats, but in the coats of the dead, as Jarchi expresses it; and had them without the camp, and there buried them, probably in their coats in which they had sinned, and in which they died: the Targum of Jonathan says, they carried them on iron hooks in their coats, and buried them without the camp.

In their coats - In the holy garments wherein they ministered; which might be done, either, as a testimony of respect due to them, notwithstanding their present failure; and that God in judgment remembered mercy, and when he took away their lives, spared their souls. Or, because being polluted both by their sin, and by the touch of their dead bodies, God would not have them any more used in his service.