³¹ These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

⁴ No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease^[a] or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

² “Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease,^(A) anyone who has a discharge,^(B) or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.^(C)

¹¹ “The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.

¹⁸ A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

¹³ Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” ^(A)

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”