What made a person unclean and guilty under Leviticus 5?
Under Leviticus 5, a person became unclean and guilty by touching any unclean thing, such as the carcass of an unclean beast, cattle, or creeping things. This included anything dead, even if the uncleanness was hidden from him, and Scripture declares he shall be unclean and guilty.
Les teaches that Leviticus 5:2 says if a soul touches any unclean thing—whether the carcass of an unclean beast, unclean cattle, or unclean creeping things—and it is hidden from him, he shall be unclean and guilty. Les illustrates this with picking up a dead bird while mowing the lawn: you have touched something dead. According to the Bible, touching anything dead defiles a person and makes him guilty. The only way to overcome that situation, as verse 6 states, was to bring a trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin. Les stresses this was Israel under the Law and is not for us today; we are not under that kind of Law.
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.