Leviticus 11:36

But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

In Context

35Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

37If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;

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Cross References

Zechariah 13:1In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:21-43

20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. 24 And for these ye shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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