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New King James Version

Leviticus 11:37

And if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it remains clean.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Leviticus;   Sower;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pulse;   Talmud;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Mishnah;   Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
King James Version
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
Lexham English Bible
And when one of their dead bodies falls on any seed for sowing, it is clean.
New Century Version
If a dead, unclean animal falls on a seed to be planted, that seed is still clean.
New English Translation
Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
Amplified Bible
'If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean;
New American Standard Bible
'Now if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if there fal of their dead carkeis vpo any seede, which vseth to be sowe, it shalbe cleane.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.
Contemporary English Version
If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean.
Complete Jewish Bible
If any carcass-part of theirs falls on any kind of seed to be sown, it is clean;
Darby Translation
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean;
Easy-to-Read Version
If any part of a dead, unclean animal falls on seed that is to be planted, that seed is still clean.
English Standard Version
And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,
George Lamsa Translation
And if any part of their carcasses falls upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
Good News Translation
If one of them falls on seed that is going to be planted, the seed remains clean.
Christian Standard Bible®
If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;
Literal Translation
And when any part of their dead body falls on any sowing seed which is sown, it shall be clean;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And though the deed carcase of eny soch fell vpon the sede that is sowne, yet is it cleane.
American Standard Version
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
Bible in Basic English
If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the dead carkasse of any such fall vpon any seede vsed to sowe, it shall yet be cleane styll:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
King James Version (1611)
And if any part of their carkasse fall vpon any sowing seed which is to be sowen, it shalbe cleane:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if one of their carcases should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean.
English Revised Version
And if aught of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
Berean Standard Bible
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If it fallith on seed, it schal not defoule the seed;
Young's Literal Translation
and when [any] of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it [is] clean;
Update Bible Version
And if [anything] of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if [any part] of their carcass shall fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean.
World English Bible
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
New Living Translation
If the carcass falls on seed grain to be planted in the field, the seed will still be considered clean.
New Life Bible
If a part of their dead body falls on any seed which is to be planted, it is clean.
New Revised Standard
If any part of their carcass falls upon any seed set aside for sowing, it is clean;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And when any part of the carcase of them shall fall upon seed for sowing, which is to be sown, the same is, clean.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.
Revised Standard Version
And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed for sowing that is to be sown, it is clean;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

Contextual Overview

20 "All flying insects that creep on all fours shall be an abomination to you. 21 Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth. 22 These you may eat: the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. 23 But all other flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you. 24 "By these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until evening; 25 whoever carries part of the carcass of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening: 26 The carcass of any animal which divides the foot, but is not cloven-hoofed or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches it shall be unclean. 27 And whatever goes on its paws, among all kinds of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches any such carcass shall be unclean until evening. 28 Whoever carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It is unclean to you. 29 "These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the large lizard after its kind;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sowing seed: 1 Corinthians 15:37, 1 Peter 1:23, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:18

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if [any part] of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed that is to be sown,.... That which is selected from the other seed in order to be sown, and which is laid by and laid up for that purpose; should the carcass, or any part of the carcass of a creeping thing fall upon an heap of it, into a vessel in which it was put, as a dead mouse or the like:

[yet] it shall be clean; be fit for use and sown in the earth; because being cast into the earth, and dying and quickening there, and then springing up again in stalk and ear, it would go through various changes before it became the food of man: the Targum of Jonathan describes it, such as is sown in its dryness, or being dry; for if it was wetted it was unfit for use, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 37. Any 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.


 
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