Leviticus 11:43
in Leviticus 11Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
KJV
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
⋯
This verse in Leviticus 11
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die
on Leviticus 11:39-43
An animal a man may lawfully eat still defiles the one who touches it when it dies of itself, so cleanness belongs to the living beast and ends with it. From verse 41 the ground itself is closed, and everything that creeps on it is put out of the diet. Verse 42 marks out whatsoever goeth upon the belly, which repeats the words spoken over the serpent at Genesis 3:14, and the chapter draws no line between the two places.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And thus the moral of it is obligatory on us, forbidding us to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; and, without this real holiness of the heart and life, he that offereth an oblation is as if he offered swine's blood ( Isa. lxvi.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth,....
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תְּשַׁקְּצוּ֙ | teshaketzu | you make detestable | H8262 → | 7 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם | nafshoteikhem | selves your | H5315 → | 754 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | by any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ | hasheretz | <the> swarming thing | H8318 → | 15 times |
| הַשֹּׁרֵ֑ץ | hashoretz | which swarms | H8317 → | 14 times |
| וְלֹ֤א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִֽטַּמְּאוּ֙ | titameu | you must make yourselves unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
| בָּהֶ֔ם | bahem | by <the> them | ||
| וְנִטְמֵתֶ֖ם | venitmetem | and you will make yourselves unclean | H2930 → | 162 times |
| בָּֽם׃ | bam | by <the> them |
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תְּשַׁקְּצוּ֙you make detestable
teshaketzuH8262 →7 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔םselves your
nafshoteikhemH5315 →754 times
בְּכָל־by any
bekholH3605 →5413 times
הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ<the> swarming thing
hasheretzH8318 →15 times
הַשֹּׁרֵ֑ץwhich swarms
hashoretzH8317 →14 times
וְלֹ֤אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
תִֽטַּמְּאוּ֙you must make yourselves unclean
titameuH2930 →162 times
בָּהֶ֔םby <the> them
bahem
וְנִטְמֵתֶ֖םand you will make yourselves unclean
venitmetemH2930 →162 times
בָּֽם׃by <the> them
bam
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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 20:25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart…
it leads to
- Leviticus 11:1–47
The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,
- Deuteronomy 14:3–21
You must not eat any detestable thing.
- Ephesians 5:7–11
Therefore do not be partakers with them.
- Acts 10:11–15
He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
- Acts 10:28
He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure…
- Leviticus 11:1–47
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Leviticus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.