² “‘If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty—if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground)^(A) and they are unaware that they have become unclean,^(B) but then they come to realize their guilt; ³ or if they touch human uncleanness^(C) (anything that would make them unclean)^(D) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt;

²¹ Anyone who touches something unclean^(A)—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground^[a]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’”

⁵ or if he touches any crawling thing^(A) that makes him unclean, or any person^(B) who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. ⁶ The one who touches any such thing will be unclean^(C) till evening.^(D) He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.^(E)