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Leviticus 11:39

If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the dead body will be unclean until the evening.

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In The King James Version

And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.

In Context

38but if the seed has been soaked in water and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you.

40If you eat anything from the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening. If you pick up the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:28and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening. They are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:40If you eat anything from the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening. If you pick up the dead body you must wash your clothes and you will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed has to wash their clothes, and wash themselves with water, and they will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:15The priest will sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. This is how the priest will make the man right before the Lord because of his discharge.

Leviticus 17:15Anyone, Israelite or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or killed by wild animals must wash their clothes and wash with water, and they will be unclean until the evening. Then they will be clean.

Numbers 19:7Then the priest shall wash his clothes and his body in water, and after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain unclean until the 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 →

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