Bible Verses About Sanitation: Carcases

If a person touches something unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, a domestic animal or a reptile, he is guilty, even though he may not be aware that he is unclean.

Moshe called Misha'el and Eltzafan, sons of 'Uzi'el Aharon's uncle, and told them, "Come here, and carry your cousins away from in front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp."

They approached and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moshe had said.

"'The following will make you unclean; whoever touches the carcass of them will be unclean until evening,

and whoever picks up any part of their carcass is to wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:

every animal that has a separate but incompletely divided hoof or that doesn't chew the cud is unclean for you; anyone who touches them will become unclean.

Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, is unclean for you; whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until evening;

and whoever picks up its carcass is to wash his clothes and be unclean until evening -these are unclean for you.

They are unclean crawling creatures; whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

Anything on which one of them falls when dead will become unclean -wooden utensil, article of clothing, leather, sacking -any utensil used for work; it must be put in water, and it will be unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

If one of them falls into a clay pot, whatever is in it will become unclean, and you are to break the pot.

Any food permitted to be eaten that water from such a vessel gets on will become unclean, and any permitted liquid in such a vessel will become unclean.

Everything on which any carcass-part of theirs falls will become unclean, whether oven or stove; it is to be broken in pieces -they are unclean and will be unclean for you;

although a spring or cistern for collecting water remains clean. But anyone who touches one of their carcasses will become unclean.

If any carcass-part of theirs falls on any kind of seed to be sown, it is clean;

but if water is put on the seed and a carcass-part of theirs falls on it, it is unclean for you.

"'If an animal of a kind that you are permitted to eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.

A person who eats meat from its carcass or carries its carcass is to wash his clothes; he will be unclean until evening.

"'Any descendant of Aharon with tzara'at or a discharge is not to eat the holy things until he is clean. Anyone who has touched a person made unclean by a dead body, or who has had a seminal emission,

the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and is not to eat the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

But there were certain people who had become unclean because of someone's corpse, so that they could not observe Pesach on that day. So they came before Moshe and Aharon that day

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'If any of you now or in future generations is unclean because of a corpse, or if he is on a trip abroad, nevertheless he is to observe Pesach.

"Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, will be unclean for seven days.

He must purify himself with [these ashes] on the third and seventh days; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.

Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, and does not purify himself has defiled the tabernacle of ADONAI. That person will be cut off from Isra'el, because the water for purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.