toucheth] After it is offered; (for being carryed out of the holy place, it might casually be touched by some uncleane person or thing) and if it were polluted before, it should not be offered to God at all, the touch of any uncleane thing, or person, though but ceremonially unclean, polluteth it; Hagg. 2. 13. and it was not to be eaten, but to be burnt, not by the holy fire of the Altar, but by common fire; but if it were not yet offered, such a touch did not so taint it, but it might be eaten, Deuteronomy 12:15. & 22.