Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:43 
Context11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. 1 You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
Leviticus 18:24
Context18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 2 have been defiled with all these things.
Leviticus 18:28
Context18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 3 just as it has vomited out the nations 4 that were before you.
Leviticus 21:11
Context21:11 He must not go where there is any dead person; 5 he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
1 tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”
2 tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
3 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
4 tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).
5 tc Although the MT has “persons” (plural), the LXX and Syriac have the singular “person” corresponding to the singular adjectival participle “dead” (cf. also Num 6:6).
