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Leviticus 11:39
Leviticus 11:39 is verse 39 of Leviticus chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
King James Version
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
World English Bible
“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Read in context
Leviticus 11:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 11:24These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
Leviticus 11:28and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:31These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:40Whoever 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.
Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:7Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.