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Leviticus 11:37
37If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean.
Leviticus 11:37 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
- New International Version (NIV)If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,
- New King James Version (NKJV)And if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it remains clean.
Context of Leviticus 11:37
35Anything on which their dead bodies fall is unclean. If it is an oven or a stove, smash it. It is unclean and will remain unclean for you. 36However, a spring or a cistern holding water will remain clean. But anyone who touches their dead bodies will be unclean. If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean. 38But if water is poured on the seed and their dead bodies fall on it, the seed is unclean for you. 39“When any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
Read all of Leviticus 11Leviticus 11:37 word by word
וְכִ֤י יִפֹּל֙ מִנִּבְלָתָ֔ם עַל־כָּל־זֶ֥רַע זֵר֖וּעַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִזָּרֵ֑עַ טָה֖וֹר הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 11:37
- 1 Corinthians 15:37What you plant, whether it’s wheat or something else, is only a seed. It doesn’t have the form that the plant will have.
- 1 Peter 1:23You have been born again, not from a seed that can be destroyed, but through God’s everlasting word that can’t be destroyed. That’s why ⌞Scripture says⌟,
- 1 John 3:9Those who have been born from God don’t live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can’t live sinful lives. They have been born from God.
- 1 John 5:18We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.
Commentaries on Leviticus 11:37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37Any sowing seed - If any part of an impure carcass fall accidentally on seed about to be sown, it shall not on that account be deemed unclean; but if the water put to the seed to prepare it for being sown, shall be touched by such impure carcass, the seed shall be considered as unclean, Leviticus 11:38. Probably this may be the meaning of these passages.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 37-38People probably moistened grain with water to cook it for food. Eating contaminated grain was like eating a dead animal. But if they planted the grain, the new plant and its grain were ceremonially clean.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-471-2. the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron--These laws, being addressed to both the civil and ecclesiastical rulers in Israel, may serve to indicate the twofold view that is to be taken of them. Undoubtedly the first and strongest reason for instituting a distinction among meats was to discourage the Israelites from spreading into other countries, and from general intercourse with the world--to prevent them acquiring familiarity with the inhabitants of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 11
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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