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19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean[a] must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat,[b] everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 7:19 tn The word “ceremonially” has been supplied in the translation both here and in the following sentence to clarify that the uncleanness involved is ritual or ceremonial in nature.
  2. Leviticus 7:19 tn The Hebrew has simply “the flesh,” but this certainly refers to “clean” flesh in contrast to the unclean flesh in the first half of the verse.

19 “‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.

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