These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThese 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.
These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.
These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)