See verses 10 and 29. Compare also 5.2.

These are unclean to you: this may equally well be translated “You are to consider these unclean…” or “you must regard as disgusting…” (New Jerusalem Bible).

Whoever: see verse 24.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .