Leviticus 11:37
If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;
1 John 3:9Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
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 →