Leviticus 11:31 BSB

Leviticus 11:31

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

BSB

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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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Commentary

1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֛לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
הַטְּמֵאִ֥ים	ha.te.me.'Im	[are] the unclean	H2931 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	to <the> you
בְּכָל־	be.khol	among every	H3605 →
הַשָּׁ֑רֶץ	ha.Sha.retz	<the> swarming thing	H8318 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
הַנֹּגֵ֧עַ	ha.no.Ge.a'	<the> [one who] touches	H5060 →
בָּהֶ֛ם	ba.Hem	<in> <the> them
בְּמֹתָ֖ם	be.mo.Tam	in death their	H4194 →
יִטְמָ֥א	yit.Ma'	he will be unclean	H2930 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
הָעָֽרֶב׃	ha.'A.rev	the evening	H6153 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Leviticus 11:8
You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
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.

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06About Leviticus

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Leviticus