Unclean - If the due purification was omitted at the time, through negligence or forgetfulness, a sin-offering was required. See Leviticus 5…

The carcases of every beast. —The construction of this text constituted one of the differences between the Pharisees and the Saddu…

[The carcasses] of every beast which divideth the hoof,
and is not cloven footed
As t…

These laws seem to have been intended,

1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…