Leviticus 11:37
New International Version
If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.

New Living Translation
If the carcass falls on seed grain to be planted in the field, the seed will still be considered clean.

English Standard Version
And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,

Berean Standard Bible
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

King James Bible
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

New King James Version
And if a part of any such carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it remains clean.

New American Standard Bible
Now if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

NASB 1995
‘If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

NASB 1977
‘And if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

Legacy Standard Bible
And if a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

Amplified Bible
If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean;

Christian Standard Bible
If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

American Standard Version
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if anything falls from their corpses on any generation of seed of the seed that is sown, it is pure.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if one of their carcases should fall upon any sowing seed which shall be sown, it shall be clean.

Contemporary English Version
If the dead body of one of these animals is found lying on seeds that have been set aside for planting, the seeds remain clean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.

English Revised Version
And if aught of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If their dead bodies fall on seed that is to be planted, the seed is clean.

Good News Translation
If one of them falls on seed that is going to be planted, the seed remains clean.

International Standard Version
If their carcass falls on a seed, which is for sowing, what is to be sown is clean.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Literal Standard Version
and when [any] of their carcass falls on any sown seed which is sown—it [is] clean;

Majority Standard Bible
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

New American Bible
If any part of their carcasses falls on any sort of grain that is to be sown, it remains clean;

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

New Revised Standard Version
If any part of their carcass falls upon any seed set aside for sowing, it is clean;

New Heart English Bible
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if any part of their carcass shall fall upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

World English Bible
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Young's Literal Translation
and when any of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it is clean;

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Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
36Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean. 37If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean; 38but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.…

Cross References
Leviticus 11:36
Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:38
but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.


Treasury of Scripture

And if any part of their carcass fall on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

sowing seed

1 Corinthians 15:37
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

1 Peter 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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(37) And if any part of their carcase.--The principle which underlies the immunity from pollution of living water is also at the basis of the exception of living plants. Hence if the carcase or a portion of a dead reptile is found among grain destined for sowing, the quantity of wheat in which it is discovered does not become defiled, since the growing plant constantly derives new elements from below and fresh moisture from above, thus undergoing as many changes in its way as spring water. The law therefore which obtained during the second Temple was as follows :--"Whatever is fixed in the ground does not contract defilement. Plants are not defiled till they are gathered." Hence the ancient Chaldee version of Jonathan renders this verse: "If any part of their carcase falleth upon any seed that is sown in the manner in which it is commonly sown--that is, in its dry state--it is clean."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
וְכִ֤י (wə·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a carcass
מִנִּבְלָתָ֔ם (min·niḇ·lā·ṯām)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5038: A flabby thing, a carcase, carrion, an idol

falls
יִפֹּל֙ (yip·pōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

seed
זֶ֥רַע (ze·ra‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

for sowing,
זֵר֖וּעַ (zê·rū·a‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2221: Something sown, a plant

[the seed]
הֽוּא׃ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is clean;
טָה֖וֹר (ṭā·hō·wr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure


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