Leviticus 22:6

the person who comes against it has even been unclean until the evening, and does not eat of the holy things, but has bathed his flesh with water,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

In Context

5or a man who comes against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness—

7and the sun has gone in, and he has been clean, and afterward he eats of the holy things, for it [is] his food;

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:25and anyone who is lifting up of their carcass washes his garments, and has been unclean until the evening—

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 11:32And anything on which anyone of them falls, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and has been unclean until the evening, then it has been clean;

Leviticus 11:40and 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.

Leviticus 16:24and he has bathed his flesh with water in the holy place, and has put on his garments, and has come out, and has made his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and has made atonement for himself and for the people;

Haggai 2:13And Haggai says, “If the unclean of body comes against any of these, is it unclean?” And the priests answer and say, “It is unclean.”

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:2-10

Laws Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord . 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord , having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off… Read the whole commentary →

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