Verse 15

Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:31 : 31 “You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
  • Lev 22:8 : 8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Lev 11:25 : 25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 15:5 : 5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
  • Lev 15:10 : 10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
  • Lev 15:21 : 21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
  • Num 19:8 : 8 The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
  • Num 19:19 : 19 And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.
  • Num 19:21 : 21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
  • Ezek 4:14 : 14 And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
  • Ezek 44:31 : 31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 So I said to him,“My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me,“These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!