Leviticus 11:24
By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
23But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:
Leviticus 11:8Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:31All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 14:46And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 15:6And he who has been seated on anything on which the unclean man has been seated is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 15:8And if liquid from the mouth of the unclean man comes on to him who is clean, then he is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:21-43
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. 24 And for these ye shall be… Read the whole commentary →