Leviticus 11:40
Whoever eats any of that carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. Anyone who picks up such a carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
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In Context
39If any animal that you may eat dies, then he who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
41Every animal that creeps on the ground is to be detested; it must not be eaten.
Cross References
Exodus 22:31You will be people that are set apart for me. So you must not eat any meat that was torn by animals in the field. Instead, you must throw it to the dogs.
Leviticus 11:28Whoever picks up such a carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. These animals will be unclean to you.
Leviticus 14:46In addition, whoever goes into the house during the time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:15The priest must offer them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and the priest must make atonement for him before Yahweh for his flow.
Leviticus 16:26The man who let the scapegoat go free must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that, he may come back into the camp.
Leviticus 17:15Every person who eats an animal that has died or that has been torn by wild animals, whether that person is native born or a foreigner living among you, he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he will be unclean until the evening. Then he will be 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 →