Levítico 11:36

36 »Sin embargo, si el cadáver de uno de estos animales cae en un manantial o en una cisterna, el agua permanecerá pura pero cualquiera que toque el cadáver quedará contaminado.

Levítico 11:36 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 11:36

Nevertheless, a fountain or pit, [wherein there is] plenty
of water
Or, "a fountain or pit, a collection of waters", the copulative being wanting, as some observe, Aben Ezra takes notice of; or it may be by way of apposition, and so may explain what fountain or pit is meant, even such an one where there is a large continence of water, into which, if any carcass of a creeping thing fell, or any part of it, yet it

shall be clean:
and fit for use, either because of the abundance of water in it, which could not be affected with the fall of such a creature into it as where there is but a small quantity; or rather this exception was made, because pools of water were of considerable value in these countries, and frequently in use for bathings and therefore for the good of men, and that they might not suffer so great a loss by such an accident, they are declared notwithstanding to be clean and free for use: hence you may learn, says Jarchi, that he that dips in them is pure from his uncleanness; that a man might lawfully make use of them for a bath on account of any uncleanness, notwithstanding the carcass of a creeping thing had fallen into it; as a mouse, or rat, or any such creature:

but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean;
not the waters which touch the carcass, as Aben Ezra interprets it, for then the whole would be defiled, and unfit for use; but either the man that touched the carcass, laid hold upon it to pluck it out of the fountain or pit, or that which he made use of to get it out, or both these, were unclean in a ceremonial sense: the Targum of Jonathan is,

``but he that toucheth their carcasses in the midst of these waters shall be unclean.''

Levítico 11:36 In-Context

34 Si el agua de dicho recipiente cae sobre cualquier alimento, este quedará contaminado; y cualquier bebida que haya en el recipiente quedará contaminada.

35 Cualquier objeto sobre el que caiga el cadáver de dichos animales quedará contaminado. Si es un horno o un fogón, deberá ser destruido porque está contaminado, y debes tratarlo como tal.

36 »Sin embargo, si el cadáver de uno de estos animales cae en un manantial o en una cisterna, el agua permanecerá pura pero cualquiera que toque el cadáver quedará contaminado.

37 Si el cadáver cae sobre la semilla que será sembrada en el campo, aun así, la semilla será considerada pura;

38 pero si la semilla está húmeda cuando el cadáver cae sobre ella, la semilla quedará contaminada.