Or if someone touches anything unclean(A)—a carcass of an unclean wild animal,(B) or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature(C)—without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.(D)

Or if he touches human uncleanness(E)—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled(F)—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt.

Or if someone swears rashly(G) to do what is good or evil—concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

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“‘If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty—if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground)(A) and they are unaware that they have become unclean,(B) but then they come to realize their guilt; or if they touch human uncleanness(C) (anything that would make them unclean)(D) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt; or if anyone thoughtlessly takes an oath(E) to do anything, whether good or evil(F) (in any matter one might carelessly swear about) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt—

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