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By these you shall become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;
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The Consequences of Uncleanness
Commentators explain that becoming ritually "unclean" had immediate practical consequences. A person who touched a carcass was considered defiled until sunset and was temporarily excluded from community worship. They could not enter the sanctuary, touch sacred things, or interact with clean people, as the impurity was considered transferable. This enforced a daily awareness of the separation between the holy and the profane.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Unclean - If the due purification was omitted at the time, through negligence or forgetfulness, a sin-offering was required. See Leviticus 5…
19th Century
Anglican
And for these ye shall be unclean. —Rather, and by these you shall be defiled, that is, the beasts and animals s…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And for these you shall be unclean That is, for eating them; or should they eat them they would be unclean:
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