Leviticus 11:39
Good News Translation
If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.

New Revised Standard Version
If an animal of which you may eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Contemporary English Version
If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening.

New American Bible
When one of the animals that you could otherwise eat dies of itself, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:24,28,31,40 And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening: . . .

Leviticus 15:5,7 If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening. . . .

Numbers 19:11,16 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . .

Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
38But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled. 39If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.40And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:38
But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.

Leviticus 11:40
And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 22:4
The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

Leviticus 22:8
That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 11:38
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