Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it. The interaction between the fellowship offering meat and ritual impurity: meat that comes into contact with anything ritually impure becomes impure and must be burned. Clean meat that has not been contaminated may be eaten by any ritually clean person. The regulation communicates the fellowship offering's character as sacred food that must be protected from contamination: the shared meal of the covenant community maintains the standards of cleanness that the entire covenant worship system requires.

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