“And 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.”
Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening; then they will be clean. The impurity from eating naturally dead or predator-killed animals: cloth-washing, bathing, until-evening impurity. The meat that was not properly slaughtered — whether it died naturally or was killed by a predator — may not be eaten without impurity consequences. The until-evening impurity is less severe than the cut off penalty for deliberate blood-eating, communicating a graduated response to the different levels of violation: deliberate blood consumption requires cut off; eating improperly dead meat requires the standard purification.
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