Leviticus 11:39
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.”
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“If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 11:39 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:24These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Leviticus 11:28and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
- 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.
- Leviticus 11:40Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and 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 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- 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.
- 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.
- Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Ezekiel 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
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