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Yahweh begins to tell Moses and Aaron which animals the people are to consider unclean.
You will become unclean until evening by these animals if you touch a carcass of one of them
This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "The dead bodies of these animals will make you unclean if you touch any of them" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
You will become unclean
A person who is unacceptable for God's purposes because he has touched one of these dead animals is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
these animals
This refers to the animals he is about to list in the following verses.