Leviticus 11 · Verse 31

Leviticus 11:31

These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 11:31, King James Version

Leviticus 11:31 in other translations

BSB	These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
WEB	These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
ASV	These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
YLT	these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.
DARBY	These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
BBE	All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.
Webster	These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

What does Leviticus 11:31 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 11:31-35

31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where venomous reptiles often creep into houses and are found lurking in boxes, vessels, or holes in the wall; and the carcass of one of them, or a dead mouse, mole, lizard, or other unclean animal, might be inadvertently touched by the hand, or fall on clothes, skin bottles, or any article of common domestic use. By connecting, therefore, the touch of such creatures with ceremonial defilement, which required immediately to be removed, an effectual means was taken to prevent the bad effects of venom and all unclean or noxious matter.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Leviticus 11:31 in the original Hebrew

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אֵ֛לֶּה'E.lehtheseH428

הַטְּמֵאִ֥יםha.te.me.'Im[are] the uncleanH2931

לָכֶ֖םla.Khemto <the> you

בְּכָל\־be.kholamong everyH3605

הַשָּׁ֑רֶץha.Sha.retz<the> swarming thingH8318

כָּל\־kol-everyH3605

הַנֹּגֵ֧עַha.no.Ge.a'<the> [one who] touchesH5060

בָּהֶ֛םba.Hem<in> <the> them

בְּמֹתָ֖םbe.mo.Tamin death theirH4194

יִטְמָ֥אyit.Ma'he will be uncleanH2930

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704

הָעָֽרֶב\׃ha.'A.revthe eveningH6153

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Cross references for Leviticus 11:31

Leviticus 11:24-25
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:8
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

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Context

Leviticus 11:30
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
Leviticus 11:31
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 11:32
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

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Leviticus 11:31 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Estos tendréis por inmundos de todos los reptiles: cualquiera que los tocare, cuando estuvieren muertos, será inmundo hasta la tarde.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Ceux-ci vous seront impurs parmi tous les reptiles; quiconque les touchera morts sera impur jusqu’au soir.
German Elberfelder 1871	Diese sollen euch unrein sein unter allem Gewimmel; jeder, der sie anrührt, wenn sie tot sind, wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Omnia hæc immunda sunt. Qui tetigerit morticina eorum, immundus erit usque ad vesperum: