Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:31-38 
Context11:31 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 1 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 2 and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean. 11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into, 3 everything in it 4 will become unclean and you must break it. 11:34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water 5 will become unclean. Anything drinkable 6 in any such vessel will become unclean. 7 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 8 to you. 11:36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water 9 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, 10 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.
1 tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”
2 tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”
3 tn Heb “And any earthenware vessel which shall fall from them into its midst.”
4 tn Heb “all which is in its midst.”
5 tn Heb “which water comes on it.”
6 tn Heb “any drink which may be drunk”; NASB “any liquid which may be drunk”; NLT “any beverage that is in such an unclean container.”
7 tn 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).
8 tn Heb “be unclean.”
9 tn Heb “a spring and a cistern collection of water”; NAB, NIV “for collecting water.”
10 tn Heb “And if there falls from their carcass on any seed of sowing which shall be sown.”
