He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
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He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
And the one who lifts their carcasses shall wash his clothes and he will become unclean until the evening. They unclean to you.
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He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
And he that beareth their carkeis, shall wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntill the euen: for such shalbe vncleane vnto you.
And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.
and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they `are' to you.
and he who is lifting up their carcass washes his garments, and has been unclean until the evening—they [are] unclean to you.
Whoever picks up such a carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. These animals will be unclean to you.
And the one who lifts their carcasses shall wash his clothes and he will become unclean until the evening. They unclean to you.
And he that carrieth their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: they shall be unclean unto you.
He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.
and if you pick up one of their dead bodies you must wash your clothes, and you will be unclean until the evening. They are unclean for you.
Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.
And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you.
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נִבְלָתָ֔ם carcass H5038 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Leviticus 11:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְהַנֹּשֵׂא֙ אֶת נִבְלָתָ֔ם יְכַבֵּ֥ס בְּגָדָ֖יו וְטָמֵ֣א עַד הָעָ֑רֶב טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖מָּה לָכֶֽם
He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ αἴρω ὁ θνησιμαῖος αὐτός πλύνω ὁ ἱμάτιον καί ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα ἀκάθαρτος οὗτος σύ εἰμί
And he that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till evening: these are unclean to you.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּדְיִטוֹל יָת נְבִלְתְּהוֹן יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹהִי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא מְסַאֲבִין אִנוּן לְכוֹן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וּדְיוֹסִיט יַת נְבֵילְתְּהוֹן יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא מְסָאֲבִין הִינוּן לְכוֹן
Whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until evening. Whoever beareth their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; unclean are they to you.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nᵉbêlâh (“carcass”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 11:28 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.