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Leviticus 20:25

in Leviticus 20

You 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 as unclean for you.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.

KJV

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

This verse in Leviticus 20

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals

on Leviticus 20:25-26

The clean and unclean list of chapter 11 returns here with a stated purpose, which is separation. The one reason Leviticus gives closes verse 26: "I have set you apart from the nations to be My own".

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This is holiness, to discern between things that differ, not to live at large, as if we might say and do any thing, but to speak and act with caution.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Between clean beasts and unclean - See the notes on Leviticus 11 (note).

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וְהִבְדַּלְתֶּ֞םand you will separate

    vehivdaltemH914 →42 times

  • בֵּֽין־between

    bein-H996 →407 times

  • הַבְּהֵמָ֤הthe animal[s]

    habehemahH929 →190 times

  • הַטְּהֹרָה֙<the> pure

    hatehorahH2889 →94 times

  • לַטְּמֵאָ֔הand <the> unclean

    latemeahH2931 →88 times

  • וּבֵין־and between

    uvein-H996 →407 times

  • הָע֥וֹףthe bird[s]

    haofH5775 →71 times

  • הַטָּמֵ֖א<the> unclean

    hatame'H2931 →88 times

  • לַטָּהֹ֑רand <the> pure

    latahorH2889 →94 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תְשַׁקְּצ֨וּyou will make detestable

    teshaketzuH8262 →7 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֜םselves your

    nafshoteikhemH5315 →754 times

  • בַּבְּהֵמָ֣הby <the> animal[s]

    babehemahH929 →190 times

  • וּבָע֗וֹףand by <the> bird[s]

    uvaofH5775 →71 times

  • וּבְכֹל֙and by all

    uvekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תִּרְמֹ֣שׂit creeps

    tirmosH7430 →17 times

  • הָֽאֲדָמָ֔הthe ground

    haadamahH127 →

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּיI have separated

    hivdaltiH914 →42 times

  • לָכֶ֖םfor <the> you

    lakhem

  • לְטַמֵּֽא׃to declare unclean

    letame'H2930 →162 times

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

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

    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…

    it leads to

    • John 4:9

      “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

    • Ephesians 3:6–7

      This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

    • Galatians 2:12–14

      For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

    • John 18:28

      Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

    • John 4:27

      Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.