Leviticus 11:37

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Si ceciderit super sementem, non polluet eam.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Si ceciderit super sementem, non polluet eam.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Si ceciderint super sementem, non polluent eam;

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.