Leviticus 11:36

A spring or cistern for collecting water remains clean; but anyone who touches their carcass is unclean.

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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

35Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; if it is an oven or small stove, it must be broken to pieces. They are unclean and they must remain unclean to you.

37If any part of their carcass falls upon any seeds for planting, those seeds will still be clean.

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Cross References

Zechariah 13:1“On that day a spring will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for their sin and impurity.

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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