But a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, while whatever touches the carcass in it shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If any part of their carcass falls upon any seed set aside for sowing, it is clean, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a part of their carcass falls on seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean; American Standard Version (1901) And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. Common English Bible If any part of these animals’ dead bodies falls on seed that is to be planted, the seed is still clean. Catholic Public Domain Version If it falls upon seed grain, it shall not defile it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it. |
But a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, while whatever touches the carcass in it shall be unclean.
but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them; they cannot sin because they have been born of God.
We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.