Leviticus 11:24 (LSB)

Passage

‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

Nearby Context

Leviticus 11:22 These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds and the devastating locust in its kinds and the cricket in its kinds and the grasshopper in its kinds.

Leviticus 11:23 But all other swarming things that fly and that are four-footed are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:24 ‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:25 and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:26 Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof but do not make a split hoof or which do not chew cud, they are unclean to you: whoever touches them becomes unclean.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "moreover", "unclean", "whoever", "touches", "carcasses", "becomes", and "until". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "moreover" and "unclean", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "But all other swarming things that fly..." into verse 25's "and whoever picks up any of their...", so "moreover" and "unclean" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "moreover" and "unclean" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.