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Text -- Leviticus 11:29-38 (NET)
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Creatures that Swarm on the Land
11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land : the rat , the mouse , the large lizard of any kind ,
11:30 the Mediterranean gecko , the spotted lizard , the wall gecko , the skink , and the chameleon .
11:31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things . Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening .
11:32 Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth . Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening . Then it will become clean .
11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into , everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.
11:34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean . Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean .
11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean . An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean , and they will stay unclean to you.
11:36 However , a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean , but one who touches their carcass will be unclean .
11:37 Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown , it is clean ,
11:38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Food |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
JOHN THE BAPTIST |
GENESIS, 3 |
ISRAEL, RELIGION OF, 1 |
TOTEMISM |
Animals |
Sanitation |
Unclean |
Israel |
Creeping Things |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Animal |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
Clean |
Defilement |
Mole |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes: Lev 11:29 For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.
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NET Notes: Lev 11:34 This half of the verse assumes that the unclean carcass has fallen into the food or drink (cf. v. 33 and also vv. 35-38).
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NET Notes: Lev 11:36 Heb “a spring and a cistern collection of water”; NAB, NIV “for collecting water.”
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