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Leviticus 11:35

in Leviticus 11

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

KJV

And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
See Lev 2:4. The word rendered “ranges for pots” has been conjectured to mean either an excavated fireplace, fitted to receive a pair of ovens, or a support like a pair of andirons.

This site's exposition

The following creatures that move along the ground

on Leviticus 11:29-35

Eight small creatures are named, and the rule moves from the animal to whatever it falls on when dead. An article of wood, clothing, leather or sackcloth is rinsed with water and is clean at evening, while a clay pot is broken.

This site's exposition

If it is an oven or cooking pot

The Hebrew behind cooking pot has puzzled readers. Albert Barnes mentions two guesses, a fireplace dug to hold a pair of ovens or a support like a pair of andirons. Adam Clarke describes the Arab hearth, a hole in the tent floor lined with stones.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And everything whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

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.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Ranges for pots - To understand this, we must observe that the Arabs dig a hole in their tent, about a foot and a half deep; three-fourths of this, says Rauwolff, they lay about with stones, and the fourth part is left open for the purpose of throwing in their fuel. This little temporary building is probably what is here designed by ranges for pots; and this was to be broken down when any unclean thing had fallen upon it. See Harmer, vol. 1., p. 464.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְ֠כֹלand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יִפֹּ֨לit will fall

    yipolH5307 →435 times

  • מִנִּבְלָתָ֥ם׀any of carcass their

    minivlatamH5038 →48 times

  • עָלָיו֮on it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • יִטְמָא֒it will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

  • תַּנּ֧וּרan oven

    tanurH8574 →15 times

  • וְכִירַ֛יִםand a stove

    vekhirayimH3600 →

  • יֻתָּ֖ץit will be broken up

    yutatzH5422 →

  • טְמֵאִ֣ים[are] unclean

    temeimH2931 →88 times

  • הֵ֑םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • וּטְמֵאִ֖יםand unclean

    utemeimH2931 →88 times

  • יִהְי֥וּthey will be

    yihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you

    lakhem

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

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

    Leviticus 15:12

    Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 6:28

      The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Philippians 3:21

      who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 11:32–33

      When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain…

    • Proverbs 3:21

      My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.

    • 2 Corinthians 5:1

      Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

  • Through

    Leviticus 6:28

    The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 15:12

      Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 11:33

      If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

    • Hebrews 9:9–10

      It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

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; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.