Leviticus 11:39

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening.

Cross References

Ezekiel 4:14

I said, “LORD God, please don't make me do that! Never in my life have I eaten food that would make me unacceptable to you. I've never eaten anything that died a natural death or was killed by a wild animal or that you said was unclean.”

Leviticus 11:24

Don't even touch the dead bodies of animals that have divided hoofs but don't chew the cud. And don't touch the dead bodies of animals that have paws. If you do, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:31

Anyone who touches their dead bodies or anything touched by their dead bodies becomes unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:38

But seeds that are soaking in water become unclean, if the dead animal is found in the water.

Leviticus 11:40

If you eat any of its meat or carry its body away, you must wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

Leviticus 14:46

Meanwhile, if any of you entered the house while it was closed, you will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:15

The priest will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me, then I will consider the man completely clean.

Leviticus 15:5

and if you touch either these or him, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 16:26

The one who led the goat into the desert and sent it off to the demon Azazel must take a bath and wash his clothes before coming back into camp.

Leviticus 17:15

If you happen to find a dead animal and eat it, you must take a bath and wash your clothes, but you are still unclean until evening.

Leviticus 22:4

None of you may take part in the sacred meals while you have a skin disease or an infected penis, or after you have been near a dead body or have had a flow of semen,

Leviticus 22:6

Once you are unclean, you must take a bath, but you still cannot eat any of the sacred food until evening.

Leviticus 22:8

I command you not to eat anything that is killed by a wild animal or dies a natural death. This would make you unclean.

Numbers 19:11

If you touch a dead body, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:16

If you touch the body of someone who was killed or who died of old age, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, you will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:7

After the ceremony, the priest is to take a bath and wash his clothes. Only then can he go back into the camp, but he remains unclean and unfit for worship until evening.