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Whosoever touches any [dead] creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he has; the soul that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

The Torah ascribes unto the priest a definite defilement, until the sun sets. This is inferred by the text; the words telling how that he had been defiled by touching one of the eight dead creeping things enumerated in the Torah.


 * The dead creeping thing = Father of uncleanness, capable of transmitting defilement at a further remove
 * The priest who touched it = contracts a first-grade uncleanness
 * Priest who immerses himself, but whose sun has not yet set (Tebul Yom) = still suffering from uncleanness, but at a further remove, namely, a second-grade uncleanness, which forbids of him eating the holy bread (Terumah)
 * Terumah that has been touched by a priest before his sun sets = contracts a defilement at a further remove, namely, third-grade uncleanness (which renders the Terumah unfit for consumption)

SEE JERUSALEM TALMUD (HAGIGA 18b)