OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 11:40

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He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

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Verse 40. Clothes, and his whole body, either together or separate, as the Rabbins explain the law. Selden syn. i. 3. If any one eat or touch these things, on purpose, he was liable to a more severe punishment, ( Menochius.) and his soul was defiled by disobedience, verse 43. Calmet.

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