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Leviticus 11:31

Leviticus 11:31 is verse 31 of Leviticus chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

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Leviticus 11:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible

29 The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

31 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

32 When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

33 If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Leviticus 11:8

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:24

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:25

and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

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