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34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water[a] will become unclean. Anything drinkable[b] in any such vessel will become unclean.[c] 35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean[d] to you. 36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water[e] will be clean, but one who touches the creature’s carcass will be unclean.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:34 tn Heb “which water comes on it.”
  2. Leviticus 11:34 tn Heb “any drink which may be drunk”; NASB “any liquid which may be drunk”; NLT “any beverage that is in such an unclean container.”
  3. Leviticus 11:34 tn This half of the verse assumes that the unclean carcass has fallen into the food or drink (cf. v. 33 and also vv. 35-38).
  4. Leviticus 11:35 tn Heb “be unclean.”
  5. Leviticus 11:36 tn Heb “a spring and a cistern collection of water”; NAB, NIV “for collecting water.”