Leviticus 7:21

7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) ¹  and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’” ² 

Leviticus 11:24

Carcass Uncleanness

11:24 “‘By these ³  you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:27

11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ⁴  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:31

11:31 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 11:40

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.

Leviticus 15:5

15:5 Anyone who touches his bed ⁵  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ⁶ 

Leviticus 15:16-17

15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, ⁷  he must bathe his whole body in water ⁸  and be unclean until evening, 15:17 and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:19-21

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge ⁹  and her discharge is blood from her body, ¹⁰  she is to be in her menstruation ¹¹  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 15:20 Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 15:21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:16

19:16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹²  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ¹³  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ¹⁴ 

¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

² sn For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20.

³ tn Heb “and to these.”

⁴ tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

⁵ tn Heb “And a man who touches in his bed”; NLT “touch the man’s bedding.”

⁶ tn Heb “he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening” (cf. also vv. 6-8, 10-11, etc.).

⁷ tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”

⁹ tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

¹⁰ tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

¹¹ tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

¹² tn The expression for “in the open field” is literally “upon the face of the field” (עַל־פְּנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה, ’al pÿne hassadeh). This ruling is in contrast now to what was contacted in the tent.

¹³ tn Heb “a dead body”; but in contrast to the person killed with a sword, this must refer to someone who died of natural causes.

¹⁴ sn See Matt 23:27 and Acts 23:3 for application of this by the time of Jesus.