If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Leviticus 11:37 in context
Leviticus 11:34–40
34
All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
35
Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
36
Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
37
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If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
38
But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39
“‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
40
He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
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