"Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether {it be} a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or …" — Leviticus 5:2

Leviticus 5:2 · KJV

“Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether {it be} a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and {if} it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.”

— Leviticus 5:2

Verse 1

And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and {is} a witness, whether he hath seen or known {of it}; if he do not utter {it}, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Verse 3

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness {it be} that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth {of it}, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5 — Context

And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and {is} a witness, whether he hath seen or known {of it}; if he do not utter {it}, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether {it be} a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and {if} it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness {it be} that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth {of it}, then he shall be guilty.

Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with {his} lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever {it be} that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth {of it}, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

Cross References

Leviticus 5:17

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist {it} not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Deuteronomy 14:8

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it {is} unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

Leviticus 11:24-40

And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 11:11

They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

Haggai 2:13

Then said Haggai, If {one that is} unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

Numbers 19:11-16

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. {man: Heb. soul of man}

Leviticus 7:21

Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean {thing, as} the uncleanness of man, or {any} unclean beast, or any abominable unclean {thing}, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which {pertain} unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Isaiah 52:11

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean {thing}; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.