The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. The until-evening impurity that is self-resolving for ordinary contact-impurity also applies to the priest: the priest who has become ritually impure must wait until evening and must bathe before eating the sacred offerings. The until-evening duration and the bathing requirement are the standard conditions for resolving the minor contact-impurity categories. The priest's access to the sacred food is delayed by the impurity but not permanently denied.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse