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 11:27-28
Context11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours 2 are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 11:28 and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:31
Context11:31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:38-40
Context11:38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
11:39 “‘Now if an animal 3 that you may eat dies, 4 whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening. 11:40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and 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 “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.
3 tn This word for “animal” refers to land animal quadrupeds, not just any beast that dwells on the land (cf. 11:2).
4 tn Heb “which is food for you” or “which is for you to eat.”
