Nevertheless a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean; but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
Leviticus 11:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed for sowing that is to be sown, 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. |
Nevertheless a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean; but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
No one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.