Leviticus 5:2 meaning and explanation

Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Leviticus 5:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Under the Mosaic law given through Moses to Israel, uncleanness could be contracted by contact with a dead animal, whether wild, domestic or crawling. The verse addresses a person who touches such a carcass without realizing it at the moment.

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