Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 5:2

2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing , whether it be a carkass of an unclean beast, or a carkass of unclean cattel, or the carkass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him ; he also shall be unclean, and guilty :

To wit, ceremonially. Of which see more fully, chap. 11. &c. and Deut. 14.

If he do it unwittingly, yet that would not excuse him, because he should have been more diligent and circumspect to avoid all unclean things. Hereby God designed to awaken men to watchfulness against and repentance for their unknown or unobserved sins. See Psal. 19. 12. 1 Ioh. 3. 20.

Not morally, for the conscience was not directly polluted by these things, Mat. 15. 11, 18. but ceremonially.

Marginal references: chap. 11. 2[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ 28, 31, 39.