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Offerings for Uncleanness

“When a person has touched a ceremonially unclean thing inadvertently,[a] such as the carcass of an unclean animal, or some unclean creeping thing, he will be unclean and guilty nevertheless. When he inadvertently touches the uncleanness of a human being, whatever his uncleanness that made him unclean may be, when he himself comes to know about it, he will be guilty. When a person has sworn inadvertently by what he has said, whether for evil or good, whatever it was that the person spoke, when he comes to understand what he said, he will incur guilt by one of these things.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 5:2 Lit. thing and it was hidden from him; and so throughout the chapter

“‘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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