Leviticus 11:35

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God instructs Moses and the Israelites on ritual purity protocols following the listing of unclean animals, specifying how contact with carcasses contaminates household vessels.

The words — The Hebrew terms תַּנּוּר (ta.nur) and כִּירַיִם (ki.ra.yim) denote an oven and a cooking stove, which the text commands to be smashed upon contact with an unclean carcass.

The thread — This contamination rule parallels Leviticus 11:33 regarding clay pots, Leviticus 6:28 on breaking vessels used for sin offerings, and Leviticus 15:12 which mandates breaking clay pots touched by a person with a discharge.

Why it lands — The text establishes that porous cooking vessels permanently retain ritual defilement from carcass contact, requiring their physical destruction to halt further contamination.

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The Hebrew words

וְ֠כֹלVe./kholand/ all אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-that יִפֹּ֨לyi.Polit will fall מִנִּבְלָתָ֥ם׀mi./niv.la.Ta/many of/ carcass/ their עָלָיו֮'a.La/von/ it יִטְמָא֒yit.Ma'it will be unclean תַּנּ֧וּרta.Nuran oven וְכִירַ֛יִםve./khi.Ra.yimand/ a stove יֻתָּ֖ץyu.Tatzit will be broken up טְמֵאִ֣יםte.me.'Im[are] unclean הֵ֑םHemthey וּטְמֵאִ֖יםu./te.me.'Imand/ unclean יִהְי֥וּyih.Yuthey will beלָכֶֽם׃la./Khemto <the>/ you

King James Version

And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

Cross-references

Leviticus 6:28 The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
Leviticus 11:33 If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
Leviticus 15:12 Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.