Leviticus 7:21

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Summary

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.

The uncleanness

Leviticus 5:2

Leviticus 22:4

Numbers 19:11

Any unclean

Leviticus 11:24

Deuteronomy 14:7

Abominable

Leviticus 11:10

Deuteronomy 14:3

Ezekiel 4:14

Cut off

Bible References

The uncleanness

Or if someone touches anything unclean—a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature

—without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

“The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

Any unclean

“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;

Abominable

But these are to be detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.

“You must not eat any detestable thing.

But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

Cut off

But the one who eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.

“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.

Any person who does any of these detestable practices must be cut off from his people.

If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.

Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorized person must be cut off from his people.”