Leviticus 17:15

World English Bible (2000)

"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:31 : 31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
  • Lev 22:8 : 8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
  • Lev 11:25 : 25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 15:5 : 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 15:10 : 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 15:21 : 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Num 19:8 : 8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Num 19:19 : 19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
  • Num 19:21 : 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
  • Ezek 4:14 : 14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
  • Ezek 44:31 : 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:39-40
    2 verses
    87%

    39"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 22:4-8
    5 verses
    85%

    4"'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

    5or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

    7When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

    8That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 11:24-28
    5 verses
    84%

    24"'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

    25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

    26"'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

    27Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

  • 16But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

    20but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

    21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • 2"'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

  • Lev 15:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    11"'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    80%

    34All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

    35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

  • 7"'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 27Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 32On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

  • Lev 17:12-14
    3 verses
    79%

    12Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

    13"'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

    14For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."

  • Num 19:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

    11"He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

  • 10"'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

  • 16"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

  • 22"Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening."

  • Num 19:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

    14"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

  • 47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

  • Num 19:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

    8He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

  • 17Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 8Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

  • 28He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

  • 27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • 31"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • 3Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • 47He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

  • 27Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

  • 25"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

  • Lev 7:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

    25For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

  • 21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • 20But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.