Leviticus 11:37

THE MESSAGE

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 King James Version
And if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it remains 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 walk on all fours are detestable to you. But you can eat some of these, namely, those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground: all locusts, katydids, crickets, and grasshoppers. But all the other flying insects that have four legs you are to detest. ²⁴"You will make yourselves ritually unclean until evening if you touch their carcasses. If you pick up one of their carcasses you must wash your clothes and you'll be unclean until evening. ²⁶ "Every animal that has a split hoof that's not completely divided, or that doesn't chew the cud is unclean for you; if you touch the carcass of any of them you become unclean. ²⁷"Every four-footed animal that goes on its paws is unclean for you; if you touch its carcass you are unclean until evening. If you pick up its carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening. They are unclean for you. ²⁹"Among the creatures that crawl on the ground, the following are unclean for you: weasel, rat, all lizards, gecko, monitor lizard, wall lizard, skink, chameleon. Among the crawling creatures, these are unclean for you. If you touch them when they are dead, you are ritually unclean until evening. When one of them dies and falls on something, that becomes unclean no matter what it's used for, whether it's made of wood, cloth, hide, or sackcloth. Put it in the water—it's unclean until evening, and then it's clean. If one of these dead creatures falls into a clay pot, everything in the pot is unclean and you must break the pot. Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean. Anything that one of these carcasses falls on is unclean—an oven or cooking pot must be broken up; they're unclean and must be treated as unclean. A spring, though, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but if you touch one of these carcasses you're ritually unclean. If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, you must treat it as unclean. ³⁹"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. ⁴¹"Creatures that crawl on the ground are detestable and not to be eaten. Don't eat creatures that crawl on the ground, whether on their belly or on all fours or on many feet—they are detestable. Don't make yourselves unclean or be defiled by them, because I am your God .

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.