Leviticus 11:40

Eating or carrying such a carcass requires washing one's clothes and brings uncleanness until evening. Greater contact with death called for an extra act of cleansing.

Cross-references · 21

• Ezek 44:31The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
• Lev 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
• Deut 14:21You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
• Ezek 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
• Exod 22:31You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.
• Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• 1 Cor 10:21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
• Lev 15:5–10Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
• Num 19:7–8Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
• Lev 14:8–9The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
• Lev 17:15–16And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
• Zech 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
• Num 19:19The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
• Lev 11:28and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
• Lev 11:25and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Isa 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Lev 15:27Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
• Lev 16:28The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
• 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• Lev 16:26The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

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