Levítico 5:2

2 “Se alguém tocar qualquer coisa impura—seja um cadáver de animal selvagem, seja de animal do rebanho, seja de uma das pequenas criaturas que povoam a terra—, ainda que não tenha consciência disso, ele se tornará impuro e será culpado.

Levítico 5:2 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing
Meaning an Israelite, for only such were bound by this law, which pronounced a person unclean that touched anything that was so in a ceremonial sense; this is the general, including whatsoever by the law was unclean; the particulars follow:

whether [it be] a carcass of an unclean beast,
as the camel, the coney, the hare, and the swine, ( Leviticus 11:2-3 )

or a carcass of unclean cattle;
as the horse, and the ass, which were unclean for food, and their dead carcasses not to be touched, ( Leviticus 11:26-28 )

or the carcass of unclean creeping things:
such as are mentioned in ( Leviticus 11:29-31 )

and if it be hidden from him;
that he has touched them; or the uncleanness contracted by touching, he having inadvertently done it; or being ignorant of the law concerning such uncleanness:

he also shall be unclean;
in a ceremonial sense, by thus touching them:

and guilty;
of a breach of the command which forbids the touching of them: this is by way of prolepsis or anticipation; for as yet the law concerning unclean beasts, and creeping things, and pollution by touching them, was not given: Jarchi and Gersom interpret this guilt, of eating of holy things, and going into the sanctuary when thus defiled: in the Jewish Misnah ^F23 it is said, the word "hidden" is twice used, to show that he is guilty, for the ignorance of uncleanness, and for the ignorance of the sanctuary.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Misn. Shebuot, c. 2. sect. 5.

Levítico 5:2 In-Context

1 “Se alguém pecar por ter sido testemunha de algo que viu ou soube e não o declarou, sofrerá as consequências da sua iniquidade.

2 “Se alguém tocar qualquer coisa impura—seja um cadáver de animal selvagem, seja de animal do rebanho, seja de uma das pequenas criaturas que povoam a terra—, ainda que não tenha consciência disso, ele se tornará impuro e será culpado.

3 “Se alguém tocar impureza humana ou qualquer coisa que o torne impuro sem ter consciência disso, será culpado quando o souber.

4 “Se alguém impensadamente jurar fazer algo bom ou mau em qualquer assunto que possa jurar descuidadamente ainda que não tenha consciência disso, será culpado quando o souber.

5 “Quando alguém for culpado de qualquer dessas coisas, confessará em que pecou