Leviticus 22:5

Leviticus 22:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
• New International Version (NIV)or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—
• New King James Version (NKJV)or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—

Context of Leviticus 22:5

3Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the Lord. 4No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen, or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean — whatever his uncleanness — 6the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water. 7When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.

Leviticus 22:5 word by word

אוֹ־אִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִגַּ֔ע בְּכָל־שֶׁ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִטְמָא־ל֑וֹ א֤וֹ בְאָדָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִטְמָא־ל֔וֹ לְכֹ֖ל טֻמְאָתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Or whosoeverאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
• touchethנָגַעnâga‛ · to touchH5060
• any creeping thingשֶׁ֫רֶץsherets · swarmH8318
• whereby he may be made uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930
• or a manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• whatsoever uncleannessטֻמְאָהţûm'âh · uncleannessH2932

Cross-references for Leviticus 22:5

• Leviticus 11:24“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
• Leviticus 15:7Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Commentaries on Leviticus 22:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Creeping things - i. e. dead vermin. Compare Leviticus 11:29.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5In Leviticus, the Hebrew word sherets always refers to an unclean small animal that swarms on land or in water (Leviticus 5:2; 11:10, 20–21, 23, 29, 31, 41–44).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. wash his flesh with water--Any Israelite who had contracted a defilement of such a nature as debarred him from the enjoyment of his wonted privileges, and had been legally cleansed from the disqualifying impurity, was bound to indicate his state of recovery by the immersion of his whole person in water. Although all ceremonial impurity formed a ground of exclusion, there were degrees of impurity which entailed a longer or shorter period of…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 22:5

• Defilement
• Sanitation
• Uncleanness

In the dictionaries

• Creeping Thing
• Defile
• Ablution
• Atonement
• Criticism
• Defile; Defilement
• Ezekiel
• Holiness
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus

Commentaries on Leviticus 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings