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“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.
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Verse 15. Stranger. Perhaps the proselyte of justice, not simply of the gate, for the latter were allowed to eat and purchase what had died of itself. Deuteronomy 14:21.—Clean, having offered the sacrifice. Calmet. 4:27. But if he eat such things knowingly, or neglected these regulations, he was more severely punished. Bible.
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