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Leviticus 11:39
“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:39 · World English Bible
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Leviticus 11:39 in other translations
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
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In context
36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39 “‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
41 “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
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