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Clean and Unclean Animals

Leviticus 11:37

In 11 translations

BSB
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
KJV
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
WEB
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
ASV
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
LSV
and when [any] of their carcass falls on any sown seed which is sown—it [is] clean;
YLT
and when [any] of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown — it [is] clean;
DBY
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean;
DRC
If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.
GNV
And if there fal of their dead carkeis vpon any seede, which vseth to be sowe, it shalbe cleane.
JPS
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
LXXE
And if one of their carcases should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְכִ֤י יִפֹּל֙ מִנִּבְלָתָ֔ם עַל־כָּל־זֶ֥רַע זֵר֖וּעַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִזָּרֵ֑עַ טָה֖וֹר הֽוּא׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιπέσῃ ἀπὸ τῶν θνησιμαίων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ πᾶν σπέρμα σπόριμον, ὃ σπαρήσεται, καθαρὸν ἔσται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 15:37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
  • 1 John 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
  • 1 Peter 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • 1 John 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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