◄ Leviticus 11:36 ►
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Good News Translation
but a spring or a cistern remains clean, although anything else that touches their dead bodies is unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
But a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, while whatever touches the carcass in it shall be unclean.

Contemporary English Version
A spring or a cistern where one of these dead animals is found is still clean, but anyone who touches the animal becomes unclean.

New American Bible
However, a spring or a cistern for collecting water remains clean; but whoever touches such an animal’s carcass becomes unclean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.

a fountain

Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman.

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

Context
Clean and Unclean Animals
…35And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean. 36But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.37If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:35
And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

Leviticus 11:37
If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.

Leviticus 11:35
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