Leviticus 11:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ But a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, while whatever touches the carcass in it shall be unclean.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ Yet a spring or a cistern or reservoir of water shall be clean; but whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

Common English Bible

³⁶ Now, a spring or cistern that collects water is clean, but anyone who touches one of these animals’ dead bodies in it will be unclean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ Yet truly, fountains and cisterns, and all reservoirs of water shall be clean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.

Leviticus 11:36 Cross References

Leviticus 11:35

Everything on which any part of the carcass falls shall be unclean; whether an oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean and shall remain unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:37

If any part of their carcass falls upon any seed set aside for sowing, it is clean,

Zechariah 13:1

On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

John 4:14

but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”