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Leviticus 22:5
5or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.
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
3Give them the following instructions. “In all future generations, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean when he approaches the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the Lord, he must be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord. 4“If any of Aaron’s descendants has a skin disease or any kind of discharge that makes him ceremonially unclean, he may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean. He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse, or by having an emission of semen, or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason. 6The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water. 7When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially clean again and may eat from the sacred offerings, for this is his food.
Read all of Leviticus 22Leviticus 22:5 word by word
אוֹ־אִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִגַּ֔ע בְּכָל־שֶׁ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִטְמָא־ל֑וֹ א֤וֹ בְאָדָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִטְמָא־ל֔וֹ לְכֹ֖ל טֻמְאָתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 22:5
- Leviticus 11:24“The following creatures will make you ceremonially unclean. If any of you touch their carcasses, you will be defiled until evening.
- Leviticus 15:7If you touch the man with the discharge, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you 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
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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
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