Leviticus 11:24

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“These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,”

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BSBPD

“These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 11:24 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 5:2Or 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.
  2. Leviticus 7:21If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
  3. Leviticus 11:8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
  4. Leviticus 11:27All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
  5. Leviticus 11:31These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
  6. Leviticus 11:38but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
  7. Leviticus 14:46Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
  8. Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  9. Leviticus 15:6Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  10. Leviticus 15:7Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  11. Leviticus 15:8If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  12. Leviticus 15:10Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  13. Leviticus 15:11If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  14. Leviticus 15:15The priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD because of his discharge.
  15. Leviticus 15:21and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  16. Leviticus 15:22Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  17. Leviticus 15:23And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
  18. Leviticus 15:27Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  19. Leviticus 16:26The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.
  20. Leviticus 16:28The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
  21. Leviticus 17:15And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
  22. Leviticus 22:5or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
  23. Leviticus 22:6the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
  24. Numbers 19:7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

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