Levítico 17:15

La Biblia de las Americas

Y cuando alguna persona, sea nativo o forastero, coma de un animal muerto, o que haya sido despedazado por fieras, lavará sus vestidos y se bañará en agua, y quedará inmundo hasta el atardecer; entonces será limpio.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y cualquiera persona que comiere cosa mortecina � despedazada por fiera, as� de los naturales como de los extranjeros, lavar� sus vestidos y � s� mismo se lavar� con agua, y ser� inmundo hasta la tarde; y se limpiar�.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y cualquiera persona que comiere cosa mortecina o despedazada por fiera, as� de los naturales como de los extranjeros, lavar� sus vestiduras y a s� mismo se lavar� con agua, y ser� inmundo hasta la tarde; y se limpiar�.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y cualquiera persona que comiere cosa mortecina o despedazada por fiera , as� de los naturales como de los extranjeros, lavar� sus vestidos, y a s� mismo se lavar� con agua, y ser� inmundo hasta la tarde; y se limpiar�.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every soul: Leviticus 22:8, Exodus 22:31, Deuteronomy 14:21, Ezekiel 4:14, Ezekiel 44:31

that which died of itself: Heb. a carcase

both wash: Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 15:5, Leviticus 15:10, Leviticus 15:21, Numbers 19:8, Numbers 19:19, Numbers 19:21, Revelation 7:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:24 - beast Leviticus 11:24 - General Leviticus 11:40 - eateth Leviticus 14:46 - shall be unclean Leviticus 15:27 - General Leviticus 17:3 - be of Leviticus 20:2 - Whosoever Numbers 15:29 - one law John 13:10 - He Hebrews 9:10 - divers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every soul that eateth that which died [of itself],.... Through any disease upon it, or by means of any other creature seizing upon it and worrying it, or was not lawfully killed; if a man ate ever so little of it, even but the quantity of an olive, it was a breach of this law; which is connected with the preceding, there being a similarity between them, because such creatures must have their blood in them, not being regularly let out, and so eating of them would offend against the above law. It is very probable, as Grotius thinks, that Pythagoras took his notion from hence, and strictly enjoined his followers to abstain from all animals that died of themselves, as Laertius n and Aelianus o relate, and which Porphyry p suggests, was what universally obtained among men:

or that which was torn [with beasts]; though not dead, yet ready to die, and so unfit for food; :-;

[whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger; a native of Israel, or a proselyte of righteousness; for as for any other stranger he might eat of it, Deuteronomy 14:22;

he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water; in forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan, dip himself all over:

and be unclean until the even; and so have no conversation with men in civil or religious things:

then shall he be clean; when he has washed his garments, and bathed himself, and the evening is come, and then shall be admitted to society as before: this is to be understood of one who ignorantly eats of the above things, not knowing them to be such; otherwise, if he did it presumptuously, he was to be punished.

n In Vit. Pythagor. l. 8. p. 588. o Var. Hist. l. 4. c. 17. p De Abstiuentia, l. 3. sect. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This law appears to be grounded on the fact that the body of an animal killed by a wild beast, or which has died of itself, still retains a great portion of its blood. The importance ascribed to this law in later times may be seen in 1 Samuel 14:32-35; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 44:31, and still more in the apostolic decision regarding “things strangled,” which are pointedly connected with blood Acts 15:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 17:15. That which died of itself, or that which was torn — Because, in both cases, the blood was retained in the body; hence the council at Jerusalem forbade things strangled as well as blood, because in such beasts the blood was coagulated in the veins and arteries. See Acts 15:28-29.

Every thing considered, surely there is as little propriety in eating of blood as there is necessity to do it. They who will do otherwise must bear their iniquity. If blood eating be no offence, then they have no sin to answer for. The principal subjects of this chapter have been already so amply handled in the notes, that there is no need to add any thing by way of reflection or improvement.