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Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.
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Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.
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So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is ever eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be credited to him. It will be an unclean thing, and the person who eats it shall bear his punishment.
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‘Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.
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But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, when he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.
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When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
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and to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,
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Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which have a divided hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
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Likewise, the rock hyrax, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
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The rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
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And the pig, for though it has a divided hoof, and so it shows a split hoof, it does not chew cud; it is unclean to you.
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You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
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Avoid the Unclean
‘Moreover, these you shall detest among the birds; they are detestable, not to be eaten: the eagle, the vulture, and the buzzard,
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‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,
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and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
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As for all the animals which have a divided hoof but do not show a split hoof, or do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean.
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Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,
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and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.
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‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,
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These are to you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
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Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden article, or clothing, or a hide, or a sack—any article of which use is made—it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean.
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As for any earthenware vessel into which one of them may fall, whatever is in it becomes unclean and you shall break the vessel.
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Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean.
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Moreover, everything on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you.
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Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean.
