Leviticus 11:8

11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ¹  they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:11

11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

Leviticus 25:34

25:34 Moreover, ²  the open field areas of their cities ³  must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

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¹ sn The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.

² tn Heb “And.”

³ sn This refers to the region of fields just outside and surrounding the city where cattle were kept and garden crops were grown (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177).