Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:8 
Context11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; 1 they are unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:24-25
ContextCarcass Uncleanness
11:24 “‘By these 2 you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 11:25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
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 to these.”
