Leviticus 11:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 11:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 11:24-25
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. …
Leviticus 11:8
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

Topics

Ablution Creeping Things Defilement Eating Food Hygiene Meal Offerings

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-42)

Here is the law, 1. Concerning flying insects, as flies, wasps, bees, etc.; these they might not eat (Lev. 11:20), nor indeed are they fit to be eaten; but there were several sorts of locusts which in those countries were very good meat, and much used: John Baptist lived upon them in the desert, and they are here allowed them, Lev. 11:21, 22. 2. Concerning the creeping things on the earth; these w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31-35. whosoever doth touch them, when ... dead, shall be unclean until the even--These regulations must have often caused annoyance by suddenly requiring the exclusion of people from society, as well as the ordinances of religion. Nevertheless they were extremely useful and salutary, especially as enforcing attention to cleanliness. This is a matter of essential importance in the East, where veno…