Leviticus 17:15
“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
16But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”
Cross References
Exodus 22:30You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
Leviticus 11:24“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:27Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:39“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:5Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be 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 →