Leviticus 11:40
and he who is eating of its carcass washes his garments, and has been unclean until the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcass washes his garments, and has been unclean until the evening.
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In Context
41And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;
Cross References
Exodus 22:31And you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.
Leviticus 11:28and he who is lifting up their carcass washes his garments, and has been unclean until the evening—they [are] unclean to you.
Leviticus 14:46And he who is going into the house all the days he has shut it up, is unclean until the evening;
Leviticus 15:15and the priest has made them, one a sin-offering and one a burnt-offering; and the priest has made atonement for him before YHWH, because of his discharge.
Leviticus 16:26And he who is sending the goat away for a goat of departure washes his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and afterward he comes into the camp.
Leviticus 17:15And any person who eats a carcass or torn thing, among natives or among sojourners, has washed his garments and bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening—then he has been clean;
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 →