“the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Leviticus 22 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.