'Touches' in the Bible
Or if someone touches any [ceremonially] unclean thing—whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of an unclean domestic animal or the carcass of unclean creeping things—even if he is unaware of it, he has become unclean, and he will be guilty.
Or if he touches human uncleanness—whatever kind it may be—and he becomes unclean, but he is unaware of it, when he recognizes it, he will be guilty.
Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it [as his share]; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from offerings by fire to the Lord. Whatever touches them will become consecrated (ceremonially clean).’”
Whatever touches its meat will become consecrated (ceremonially clean). When any of its blood splashes on a garment, you shall wash what was splashed on in a holy place.
When anyone touches any unclean thing—human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing—and then eats the meat of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].’”
‘By [contact with] these you will become unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening (dusk),
Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof, but do not have a split hoof, or which do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean.
Also all animals that walk on their paws, among all kinds of animals that walk on four legs, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening,
These [creatures] are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
Nevertheless a spring or a cistern (reservoir) collecting water shall be clean; but whoever touches one of these carcasses shall be unclean.
‘If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.
Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening;
Also whoever touches the man with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Whoever touches anything that has been under him shall be unclean until evening; and whoever carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Whomever the one with the discharge touches without rinsing his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
An earthenware container that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden container shall be rinsed in water.
‘When a woman has a discharge, if her bodily discharge is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
And if it is on her bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.
And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
No man of the descendants of Aaron who is a leper or has a discharge may eat the holy things [the offerings and the showbread] until he is clean. And whoever touches any person or thing made unclean by contact with a corpse or a man who has had a seminal emission,
or whoever touches any crawling thing by which he is made unclean, or any person by whom he is made unclean, whatever it may be,