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Leviticus 11:37

in Leviticus 11

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

KJV

And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

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This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Any sowing seed - If any part of an impure carcass fall accidentally on seed about to be sown, it shall not on that account be deemed unclean; but if the water put to the seed to prepare it for being sown, shall be touched by such impure carcass, the seed shall be considered as unclean, Lev 11:38. Probably this may be the meaning of these passages.

This site's exposition

a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water

on Leviticus 11:36-38

Two exemptions run against the rule just given. A spring or a cistern holding a body of water stays clean when a carcase touches it, and dry seed kept for sowing stays clean, while the same seed defiles once water has been put on it. The Hebrew phrase behind plenty of water is mikveh mayim, a gathering of water, and the Mishnah tractate Mikvaot, compiled around 200 AD, takes its name and its law of immersion pools from this verse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Seed - Partly because this was necessary provision for man; and partly because such seed would not be used for man's food till it had received many alterations in the earth whereby such pollution was taken away.
And if any part of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed that is to be sown,....

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְכִ֤יand if

    vekhiH3588 →4482 times

  • יִפֹּל֙it will fall

    yipolH5307 →435 times

  • מִנִּבְלָתָ֔םany of carcass their

    minivlatamH5038 →48 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • זֶ֥רַעseed of

    zera'H2233 →229 times

  • זֵר֖וּעַsowing

    zerua'H2221 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִזָּרֵ֑עַit will be sown

    yizarea'H2232 →56 times

  • טָה֖וֹר[is] pure

    tahorH2889 →94 times

  • הֽוּא׃it

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    1 John 3:9

    Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

    it leads to

    • John 1:13

      children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 John 5:1

      Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 John 5:18

      We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    • 1 Peter 1:23

      For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

    • 1 John 2:29

      If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  • Through

    1 John 5:18

    We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 3:9

      Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

    • 1 John 5:4

      because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

  • Through

    1 Peter 1:23

    For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 1:3

      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 11 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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