Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures! Let flying creatures fly above the land across the expanse of the sky.”
Leviticus 11:43 - Tree of Life Version You are not to contaminate yourselves with any creeping thing that crawls nor make yourselves unclean with them or defiled by them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not make yourselves loathsome and abominable [by eating] any swarming thing that [multiplies by] swarms, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. Common English Bible Do not make yourselves detestable by means of any swarming creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean with them or be made unclean by them. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not be willing to contaminate your souls, nor shall you touch any of these, lest you become unclean. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean, |
Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures! Let flying creatures fly above the land across the expanse of the sky.”
All flesh perished—those that crawl on the land, the flying creatures, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that swarm upon the land, and all humankind.
“Also you are to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. And you are not to make your souls detestable by an animal or by a bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart as unclean for you.
or who touches any creeping thing that may make him unclean or a person who is unclean—whatever his uncleanness—