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Leviticus 11:31

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These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.

KJV

These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where venomous reptiles often creep into houses and are found lurking in boxes, vessels, or holes in the wall; and the carcass of one of them, or a dead mouse, mole, lizard, or other unclean animal, might be inadvertently touched by the hand, or fall on clothes, skin bottles, or any article of common domestic use.

This site's exposition

shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things

on Leviticus 11:29-35

Eight small creatures are named, and then the rule moves from the animal to whatever it falls on when it is dead. A wooden vessel, a garment, a skin or a sack goes into water and is clean at evening, and an earthen vessel is broken instead. An oven or a set of ranges for pots is broken down on the same ground, so a thing fired out of clay is destroyed where a thing of wood is washed. The chapter states that difference between materials and leaves it unexplained.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

These are unclean to you of all that creep,....

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֵ֛לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • הַטְּמֵאִ֥ים[are] the unclean

    hatemeimH2931 →88 times

  • לָכֶ֖םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • בְּכָל־among every

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַשָּׁ֑רֶץ<the> swarming thing

    hasharetzH8318 →15 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֹּגֵ֧עַ<the> [one who] touches

    hanogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בָּהֶ֛ם<in> <the> them

    bahem

  • בְּמֹתָ֖םin death their

    bemotamH4194 →156 times

  • יִטְמָ֥אhe will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הָעָֽרֶב׃the evening

    haarevH6153 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 11:8

    You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 2:16

      Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

    • Hebrews 9:10

      They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

    • Hosea 9:3

      They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

    • Isaiah 52:11

      Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

    • Leviticus 5:2

      Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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