Bible verse
If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:39 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 11.
35 Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
36 Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
37 If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
38 but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
39 If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
40 Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.
41 Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
42 Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.
43 Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
KJV
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
ASV
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.
ERV
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
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