²¹ If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable^[a](A) creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Purification after Touching Dead Animals

²⁴ “These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean^(A) until evening, ²⁵ and whoever carries any of their carcasses must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.^{(B) 26} All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean. ²⁷ All the four-footed animals^(C) that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,