Imamat 17:15

Regulations for Eating Carcasses

17:15 “‘Any person ¹  who eats an animal that has died of natural causes ²  or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, ³  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

Imamat 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ⁴  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ⁵  to the Lord while he is impure, ⁶  that person must be cut off from before me. ⁷  I am the Lord.

[17:15]  ¹ tn Heb “And any soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh).

[17:15]  ² tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

[17:15]  ³ tn Heb “in the native or in the sojourner.”

[22:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “To your generations.”

[22:3]  ⁵ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

[22:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

[22:3]  ⁷ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”