Leviticus 22:5
What does Leviticus 22:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Leviticus 22:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness--
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890or a man that toucheth any crawling thing whereby he becometh unclean, or a man by whom he may become unclean, whatever may be his uncleanness,
Context
v.4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
v.5This passage
v.6the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:43
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.
- Leviticus 11:24
And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;
- Leviticus 15:19
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:7
And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
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