Leviticus 11:31

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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.

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  • Lev 11:8 : 8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
  • Lev 11:24-25 : 24 Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

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  • Lev 11:23-30
    8 verses
    87%

    23But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

    24Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

    26Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.

    27All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

    29Creatures that Swarm on the Land“‘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,

    30the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.

  • Lev 22:4-6
    3 verses
    83%

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 11:32-44
    13 verses
    81%

    32Also, 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.

    33As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.

    34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

    35Anything 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.

    36However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

    37Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,

    38but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

    39Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

    40One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

    41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

    42You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

    43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

    44for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

  • Lev 11:8
    79%

    8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:19
    77%

    19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.

  • Num 19:22
    77%

    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Lev 15:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 5:2
    76%

    2Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

  • Num 19:11
    76%

    11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

  • Lev 15:27
    75%

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 17:15
    75%

    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

  • Lev 11:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

    21However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

  • Lev 11:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

    11Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

    12Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

  • Num 19:16
    73%

    16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

  • Deut 14:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

    8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    73%

    46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

    47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

  • Deut 14:10
    73%

    10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

  • Lev 11:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

    5The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

    6The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

  • Lev 7:21
    73%

    21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Num 19:13
    72%

    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

  • Lev 15:7
    72%

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.