Leviticus 17:15

New English Translation

“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

Cross References

Exodus 22:30

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

Exodus 22:31

“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

Ezekiel 4:14

And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 44:31

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

Leviticus 11:24

“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:25

and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:27

All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:28

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:31

These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:32

Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

Leviticus 11:39

“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:10

Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:21

Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 22:8

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 7:24

Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

Numbers 19:19

And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

Numbers 19:21

“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:8

The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Revelation 7:14

So I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!