Related%20passage for Makkot 38:5

טומאת הגוף בהדיא כתיב (ויקרא כב, ו) נפש אשר תגע בו וטמאה עד הערב ולא יאכל מן הקדשים וגו' אלא טומאת עצמו מנין

Why, [the scriptural warning against consuming maaser sheni whilst in a state of] bodily tumah [impurity] is explicitly written, (Leviticus 22,6) "The soul that touches it and is tamai until the evening may not eat from the holy. etc."! Rather from where is [the scriptural warning against consuming maaser sheni when] it itself is tamai derived from?

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