“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 (BSB)
Context Reading
1“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity. 2Or 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. 3Or if he touches human uncleanness — anything by which one becomes unclean — even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty. 4Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil — in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath — even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.