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He who eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
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Contact with Death Required Cleansing
Commentators explain that even a 'clean' animal, if it died on its own, became a source of ritual impurity. Both eating its carcass (which scholars assume was done in ignorance) and even just carrying it required washing and a period of being 'unclean.' This highlights God's strict standards for holiness and separation from death.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
And he that eateth. —That is, ignorantly, since for willful transgression the transgressor incurred the penalty of excisi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he that eateth of the carcass of it For though it might be eaten, if rightly killed, yet not if it died of itsel…
Presbyterian
These laws seem to have been intended,
As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…
