Leviticus 5:3

5:3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, ¹  even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

Leviticus 6:18

6:18 Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion ²  throughout your generations ³  from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts ⁴  must be holy.’” ⁵ 

Leviticus 6:27

6:27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, ⁶  you must wash ⁷  whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

Leviticus 7:19

7:19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially ⁸  unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, ⁹  everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

Leviticus 11:26-27

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ¹⁰  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ¹¹  and do not chew the cud ¹²  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ¹³  11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ¹⁴  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 15:10

15:10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him ¹⁵  will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items ¹⁶  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:19

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge ¹⁷  and her discharge is blood from her body, ¹⁸  she is to be in her menstruation ¹⁹  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:24

15:24 and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, ²⁰  then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

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¹ tn Heb “or if he touches uncleanness of mankind to any of his uncleanness which he becomes unclean in it.”

² tn Or “a perpetual regulation”; cf. NASB “a permanent ordinance”; NRSV “as their perpetual due.”

³ tn Heb “for your generations”; cf. NIV “for the generations to come.”

⁴ tn Heb “touches them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In this context “them” must refer to the “gifts” of the Lord.

⁵ tn Or “anyone/anything that touches them shall become holy” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:443-56). The question is whether this refers to the contagious nature of holy objects (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or whether it simply sets forth a demand that anyone who touches the holy gifts of the Lord must be a holy person (cf. CEV). See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:900-902.

⁶ tn Heb “on the garment”; NCV “on any clothes”; CEV “on the clothes of the priest.”

⁷ tc The translation “you must wash” is based on the MT as it stands (cf. NASB, NIV). Smr, LXX, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., and the Vulgate have a third person masculine singular passive form (Pual), “[the garment] must be washed” (cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). This could also be supported from the verbs in the following verse, and it requires only a repointing of the Hebrew text with no change in consonants. See the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 90 and J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:404.

⁸ tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.

⁹ tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

¹¹ tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

¹² tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

¹³ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

¹⁵ tn Heb “which shall be under him.” The verb is perhaps a future perfect, “which shall have been.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the previously mentioned items which were under the unclean person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

¹⁸ tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

¹⁹ tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

²⁰ tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”