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Bible Verses About Sanitation: Carcases

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Verses on Carcases

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  1. `Or when a person cometh against any thing unclean, or against a carcase of an unclean beast, or against a carcase of unclean cattle, or against a carcase of an unclean teeming creature, and it hath been hidden from him, and he unclean, and guilty;

  2. And Moses calleth unto Mishael and unto Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, uncle of Aaron, and saith unto them, `Come near, bear your brethren from the front of the sanctuary unto the outside of the camp;'

  3. and they come near, and bear them in their coats unto the outside of the camp, as Moses hath spoken.

  4. `And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;

  5. and anyone who is lifting up aught of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --

  6. even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up--unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean.

  7. `And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four--unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

  8. and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening--unclean they are to you.

  9. these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

  10. `And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

  11. and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which any one of them falleth, all that is in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

  12. `Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh such water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any such vessel is unclean;

  13. and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are , yea, unclean they are to you.

  14. `Only--a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean;

  15. and when any of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown--it is clean;

  16. and when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcase hath fallen on it--unclean it is to you.

  17. `And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;

  18. and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

  19. `Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue--of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him,

  20. the person who cometh against it--hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water,

  21. And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,

  22. `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;

  23. `He who is coming against the dead body of any man--is unclean seven days;

  24. he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean.

  25. Any one who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dieth, and cleanseth not himself--the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.