Leviticus 11:40
and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
41'And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;
Cross References
Exodus 22:31'And ye are holy men to Me, and flesh torn in the field ye do not eat, to a dog ye do cast it.
Leviticus 11:28and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening — unclean they [are] to you.
Leviticus 14:46'And he who is going in unto the house all the days he hath shut it up, is unclean till the evening;
Leviticus 15:15and the priest hath made them, one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering; and the priest hath made atonement for him before Jehovah, because of his issue.
Leviticus 16:26'And he who is sending away the goat for a goat of departure doth wash his garments, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and afterwards he cometh in unto the camp.
Leviticus 17:15'And any person who eateth a carcase or torn thing, among natives or among sojourners — hath both washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been unclean until the evening — then he hath 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 →