Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. New Living Translation You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses. They are ceremonially unclean for you. English Standard Version You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. Berean Standard Bible You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. King James Bible Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you. New King James Version Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you. New American Standard Bible You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. NASB 1995 ‘You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. NASB 1977 ‘You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. Legacy Standard Bible You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. Amplified Bible You shall not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. Christian Standard Bible Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses—they are unclean for you. Holman Christian Standard Bible Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses—they are unclean for you.” American Standard Version Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you. Aramaic Bible in Plain English You will not eat from their flesh and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are defiled to you. Brenton Septuagint Translation Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall not touch their carcases; these are unclean to you. Douay-Rheims Bible The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you. English Revised Version Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcases ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you. GOD'S WORD® Translation Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you. Good News Translation Do not eat these animals or even touch their dead bodies; they are unclean. International Standard Version You are not to eat their flesh or even touch their carcasses. They are to be unclean for you." JPS Tanakh 1917 Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you. Literal Standard Version You do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass—they [are] unclean to you. Majority Standard Bible You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. New American Bible You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. NET Bible You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. New Revised Standard Version Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean for you. New Heart English Bible Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you. Webster's Bible Translation Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you. World English Bible You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you. Young's Literal Translation Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they are to you. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Clean and Unclean Animals…7And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. 8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. 9Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.… Cross References Leviticus 5:2 Or if a person touches anything unclean--whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature--even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty. Leviticus 11:7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. Leviticus 11:9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales. Treasury of Scripture Of their flesh shall you not eat, and their carcass shall you not touch; they are unclean to you. they are unclean Leviticus 5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. Isaiah 52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. Jump to Previous Bodies Carcase Carcass Carcasses Dead Eat Food Meat Touch Touched Unclean UsedJump to Next Bodies Carcase Carcass Carcasses Dead Eat Food Meat Touch Touched Unclean UsedLeviticus 11 1. What animals may be eaten4. and what may not be eaten 9. What fishes 13. What fowls 29. The creeping things which are unclean (8) Of their flesh ye shall not eat.--During the second Temple the prohibition was defined to extend to the smallest quantity. If any one ate a piece of flesh less even than the size of an olive he was chastised with stripes. And their carcase shall ye not touch.--As contact with a human dead body, which was regarded as the most defiling of all, was only forbidden to the priests (see Leviticus 21:1-3), hence the prohibition here addressed to the whole nation was interpreted during the second Temple to apply simply to the occasions when the Israelites came to Jerusalem on the pilgrimage festivals. Contact with a carcase of an unclean animal on these visits precluded the worshipper from entering the sanctuary, from touching sacred things, and from partaking of the sacrificial meats. Verse 8. - Of their carcass shall ye not touch. This prohibition is founded upon the same feeling of disgust as the prohibition of eating their flesh. Whatever is foal must be avoided.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You must not eatתֹאכֵ֔לוּ (ṯō·ḵê·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 398: To eat their meat מִבְּשָׂרָם֙ (mib·bə·śā·rām) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man or touch תִגָּ֑עוּ (ṯig·gā·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike their carcasses; וּבְנִבְלָתָ֖ם (ū·ḇə·niḇ·lā·ṯām) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol they הֵ֖ם (hêm) Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They are unclean for you. טְמֵאִ֥ים (ṭə·mê·’îm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2931: Unclean Links Leviticus 11:8 NIVLeviticus 11:8 NLT Leviticus 11:8 ESV Leviticus 11:8 NASB Leviticus 11:8 KJV Leviticus 11:8 BibleApps.com Leviticus 11:8 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 11:8 Chinese Bible Leviticus 11:8 French Bible Leviticus 11:8 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 11:8 Of their flesh you shall not eat (Le Lv Lev.) |
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