Leviticus 11:31 (YLT)

Passage

these <FI>are<Fi> the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 11:29 `And this <FI>is<Fi> to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

Leviticus 11:30 and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole;

Leviticus 11:31 these <FI>are<Fi> the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

Leviticus 11:32 `And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

Leviticus 11:33 and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which <FI>any<Fi> one of them falleth, all that <FI>is<Fi> in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "unclean", "teeming", "coming", "against", "death", "till", and "evening". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "unclean" and "teeming", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "and the ferret and the chameleon and..." into verse 32's "And anything on which any one of...", so "unclean" and "teeming" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "unclean" and "teeming" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.