Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcases ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

De carne eorum non comedetis, neque cadaver eorum tangetis: immunda erunt vobis.

Of their (c) flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
(c) God would that by this for a time they should be discerned as his people from the Gentiles.

Of their flesh shall ye not eat,.... Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare:
and their carcass shall ye not touch; which must not be understood of touching them in any sense; for then it would have been unlawful for a Jew to have rode upon a camel, or to take out and make use of hog's lard in medicine; but of touching them in order to kill them, and prepare them for food, and eat them; and indeed all unnecessary touching of them is forbidden, lest it should bring them to the eating of them; though perhaps it may chiefly respect the touching of them dead:
they are unclean to you: one and all of them; for as this was said of each of them in particular, so now of all of them together; and which holds good of all wild creatures not named, to whom the description above belongs, and which used to be eaten by other nations; some of which were called Pamphagi, from eating all sorts, and others Agriophagi, from eating wild creatures, as lions, panthers, elephants (l), &c.
(l) Plin. l. 6. c. 30. Solinus, c. 43.

"Of their flesh shall ye not eat (i.e., not slay these animals as food), and their carcase (animals that had died) shall ye not touch." The latter applied to the clean or edible animals also, when they had died a natural death (Leviticus 11:39).

Ye shall not touch - Not in order to eating, as may be gathered by comparing this with Genesis 3:3. But since the fat and skins of some of the forbidden creatures were useful, for medicinal and other good purposes, and were used by good men, it is not probable that God would have them cast away. Thus God forbad the making of images, Exodus 20:4, not universally, but in order to the worshipping them, as Christian interpreters agree.