Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and [if] it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Lorsque quelqu'un, sans s'en apercevoir, touchera une chose souillée, comme le cadavre d'un animal impur, que ce soit d'une bête sauvage ou domestique, ou bien d'un reptile, il deviendra lui-même impur et il se rendra coupable.
KJV
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and [if] it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Philo Judaeus
De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv)
oui. Maug. ἀόριστον S2: ἄριστον S1M ἀποτείνοντες M: ἀποτείνονται S (v) καινὰς κενὰς SM: καὶ καινὰς 1 Lev. 5,2. 11,24—28. Deut. 14,20. 12 Lev. 17,13—16. 17 ἐπινοοῦντες ἡδονάς, ἄθυτα παρασκευάζουσιν, ἄγχοντες καὶ ἀποπνίγοντες καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς, ἣν ἐλεύθερον καὶ ἄφετον ἐχρῆν…
Eusebius of Caesarea
Demonstratio Evangelica
άθῃ αὐτὸν λήθῃ, καὶ ἁμάρτῃ ἀκουσίως ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων κυρίου, καὶ εἰσοίσει κριὸν τῆς πλημμελείας αὐτοῦ 6 Levit. 5, 2. 27 Levit. 5, 15. τῶ κυρίῳ. οἴσει δὲ πάλιν παρὰ τὸν ἀρχιερέα ἐν τῷ τόπω δηλαδὴ τῷ ἐξειλεγμένῳ.” Καὶ ἕκτον δὲ νόμον τούτοις προστίθησι λέγων “ψυχὴ ἂν ἁμάρτῃ καὶ ποιήσῃ…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 121 (Migne)
atus [Col. 0735A] est; aut si tetigerit ab immunditia hominis ab omni immunditia ex qua inquinetur (Lev. V, 2) , etc. Haec quidem apud Judaeos indecenter satis et inutiliter observantur. Ut quid enim immundus habeatur qui contigerit, verbi causa, animal mortuum, aut corpus homin…
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