'Touches' in the Bible
Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;
or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.'"
Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) 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.'"
"'By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
"'All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.
All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
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.
However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
"'Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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.
Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.
"'When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,
and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,
or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person's impurity --
the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.