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Leviticus 17:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
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Role in This Section
This verse provides washing and waiting after eating carrion, for native and outsider alike.
Read It With
- Leviticus 17:10-16
Start with 17:10-16 rather than Leviticus 17:15 alone. In that complete movement, this verse provides washing and waiting after eating carrion, for native and outsider alike. The unit's controlling claim is: Eating blood brings exclusion because life is in the blood and altar atonement uses it; hunted blood is covered, and carrion contact requires washing and waiting.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 17:15 provides washing and waiting after eating carrion, for native and outsider alike; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 17:10-16.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 17:10-16 — Blood is reserved as life and carrion contact is purifiedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 17:10-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 17:10-16
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