Leviticus 17:15
And 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;
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In Context
16and if he does not wash, and does not bathe his flesh—then he has borne his iniquity.”
Cross References
Exodus 22:30so you do to your ox [and] to your sheep; it is with its mother [for] seven days, on the eighth day you give it to Me.
Leviticus 11:24And you are made unclean by these; anyone who is coming against their carcass is unclean until the evening;
Leviticus 11:27And anything going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four—they [are] unclean to you; anyone who is coming against their carcass is unclean until the evening;
Leviticus 11:31these [are] the unclean to you among all which are teeming; anyone who is coming against them in their death is unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:39And when any of the beasts which are for food for you dies, he who is coming against its carcass is unclean until the evening;
Leviticus 15:5and anyone who comes against his bed washes his garments, and has bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:11-16
The Eating of Blood Forbidden. ( b. c. 1490.) 10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No… Read the whole commentary →