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.

As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ¹  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ² 

“‘By these ¹  you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes ¹  or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ¹  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

Or when there is ¹  a person who touches anything ceremonially ²  unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, ³  but he himself has become unclean and is guilty; ⁴ 

He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes ¹  and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, ²  but you must certainly never eat it.

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

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

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, ¹  it is clean,

but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; ¹  the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. ¹  There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal. ¹ 

Some men came by ¹  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ²  They went and reported what they had seen ³  in the city where the old prophet lived.