Leviticus 11:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.”
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“These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“these <FI>are<Fi> the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 11:31 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
- Leviticus 11:24These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Leviticus 14:46Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).