Christian Standard Bible
Leviticus 7:21
21If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.”
Leviticus 7:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
- New International Version (NIV)Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the Lord must be cut off from their people.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
Context of Leviticus 7:21
19“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat. 20But the one who eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people. If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.” 22The Lord spoke to Moses: 23“Tell the Israelites: You are not to eat any fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
Read all of Leviticus 7Leviticus 7:21 word by word
וְנֶ֜פֶשׁ כִּֽי־תִגַּ֣ע בְּכָל־טָמֵ֗א בְּטֻמְאַ֤ת אָדָם֙ א֣וֹ׀ בִּבְהֵמָ֣ה טְמֵאָ֗ה א֚וֹ בְּכָל־שֶׁ֣קֶץ טָמֵ֔א וְאָכַ֛ל מִבְּשַׂר־זֶ֥בַח הַשְּׁלָמִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַיהוָ֑ה וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ הַהִ֖וא מֵעַמֶּֽיהָ׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Moreover the soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: personH5315
- that shall touchנָגַעnâga‛ · to touchH5060
- any uncleanטֻמְאָהţûm'âh · uncleannessH2932
- of manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
- uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · uncleanH2931
- beastבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
- or any abominableשֶׁ֫קֶץsheqets · detestationH8263
- and eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- of the fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
- of the sacrificeזֶ֫בַחzebach · sacrificeH2077
- of peace offeringsשֶׁ֫לֶםshelem · peace offeringH8002
- unto the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- shall be cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
- from his peopleעַם‛am · kinsmanH5971
Cross-references for Leviticus 7:21
- Leviticus 5:2Or if someone touches anything unclean — a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature — without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.
- Leviticus 5:12He is to bring it to the priest, who will take a handful from it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar along with the food offerings to the Lord; it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 15:1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
- Leviticus 22:4No 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,
- Numbers 19:11“The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.
- Leviticus 11:24“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Deuteronomy 14:7But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these: camels, hares, and hyraxes, though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves — they are unclean for you;
- Leviticus 11:10But these are to be abhorrent to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.
- Deuteronomy 14:3“You must not eat any detestable thing.
- Ezekiel 4:14But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”
- Leviticus 7:20But the one who eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice while he is unclean, that person must be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 17:10“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
- Leviticus 18:29Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.
- Genesis 17:14If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
- Exodus 12:15You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 30:33Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorized person must be cut off from his people.”
Commentaries on Leviticus 7:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21The uncleanness of man - Any ulcer, sore, or leprosy; or any sort of cutaneous disorder, either loathsome or infectious.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Unclean beast - that is, carrion of any kind. See Exodus 31:14 note.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-27Verses 11-27 As to the peace-offerings, in the expression of their sense of mercy, God left them more at liberty, than in the expression of their sense of sin; that their sacrifices, being free-will offerings, might be the more acceptable, while, by obliging them to bring the sacrifices of atonement, God shows the necessity of the great Propitiation. The main reason why blood was forbidden of old, was because the Lord had appointed blood for an atonement…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-21cut off: This expression can mean three serious things: God judged the person, and they died early from natural causes (Leviticus 17:10–14). The community executed the person (see Exodus 31:14). The person lost membership in Israel. This was either by expulsion (like excommunication) or being shunned and treated as ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 18:24–30; see 23:29–30, where "cut off" seems different from "destroy").Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. abominable unclean thing--Some copies of the Bible read, "any reptile."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 7
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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