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Legacy Standard Bible

Leviticus 11:39

‘Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Creeping Things;   Defilement;   Food;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carcase;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Preparation ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Animal;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
King James Version
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And when one of the animals dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening.
New Century Version
"‘Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, anyone who touches its body will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
"‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
Amplified Bible
'If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.
New American Standard Bible
'Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If also any beast, whereof ye may eate, die, he that toucheth the carkeis thereof shal be vncleane vntil the euen.
Contemporary English Version
If an animal that may be eaten happens to die, and you touch it, you become unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘If an animal of a kind that you are permitted to eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
And if any beast which is to you for food die, he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
English Standard Version
"And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
George Lamsa Translation
And if any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
If any animal that may be eaten dies, anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.
Literal Translation
And when any of the animals which are food for you dies, he who touches its dead body is unclean until the evening;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan a beest dyeth that ye maye eate, he that toucheth the deed carcase therof, is vncleane vntyll euen.
American Standard Version
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Bible in Basic English
And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If any beast of which ye may eate, dye, and any man touche the dead carkasse thereof, he shalbe vncleane vntyll the euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And if any beast of which ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carkasse thereof, shall be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if one of the cattle die, which it is lawful for you to eat, he that touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening.
English Revised Version
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If a beeste is deed, which it is leueful to you to ete, he that touchith the deed bodi therof schal be vnclene `til to euentid; and he that etith therof ony thing,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;
Update Bible Version
And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies; he that touches the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, shall die; he that toucheth its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
New King James Version
"And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
"If an animal you are permitted to eat dies and you touch its carcass, you will be defiled until evening.
New Life Bible
‘If one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
If an animal of which you may eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when any of the beasts which are yours for food shall die, he that toucheth the carcase of it shall be unclean until the evening.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
"And if any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
THE MESSAGE
"If an animal that you are permitted to eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass is ritually unclean until evening. If you eat some of the carcass you must wash your clothes and you are unclean until evening. If you pick up the carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

Contextual Overview

20‘All the swarming things that fly and that walk on all fours are detestable to you. 21Yet these you may eat among all the swarming things that fly and that walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth. 22These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds and the devastating locust in its kinds and the cricket in its kinds and the grasshopper in its kinds. 23But all other swarming things that fly and that are four-footed are detestable to you. 24‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening, 25and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. 26Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof but do not make a split hoof or which do not chew cud, they are unclean to you: whoever touches them becomes unclean. 27Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening, 28and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you. 29‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole and the mouse and the great lizard in its kinds,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:24, Leviticus 11:28, Leviticus 11:31, Leviticus 11:40, Leviticus 15:5, Leviticus 15:7, Numbers 19:11, Numbers 19:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:2 - touch Ezekiel 4:14 - have I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if any beast of which ye may eat die,.... Any clean beast, as the ox, sheep, goat, deer, c. what, if rightly killed, is very lawful to eat of but if it died of itself through any distemper, or was torn by the wild beasts, so the Targum of Jonathan:

he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even; not the bones, nerves, horns, hoofs, or skin, as Jarchi observes; these might be handled, because some of them, at least, were wrought up into one instrument or another, by artificers, for use and service, but the flesh of them might not be touched; whoever did touch it was ceremonially unclean, and might not go into the sanctuary, or have conversation with men, until the evening of the day in which this was done.


 
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