“And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.”
Anyone who eats some of the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must also wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. The eating of a clean animal that died naturally — not properly slaughtered — requires the cloth-washing and until-evening impurity response. The clean animal that dies outside the proper slaughter context cannot be eaten without creating ritual impurity for the eater. The covenant's dietary law requires not only that the right animals be eaten but that those animals be killed in the right way.
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