Levítico 11:34

34 Todo alimento sobre el que caiga agua de dicha vasija quedará impuro; lo mismo sucederá con todo líquido que haya en esa vasija.

Levítico 11:34 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 11:34

Of all meat which may be eaten
Which otherwise is lawful to eat and fit for food, whether herbs, or whether the flesh of clean creatures:

[that] on which [such] water cometh shall be unclean;
that is, such water as is put into an unclean vessel, become so by the fall of any unclean reptile into it; wherefore such water poured out upon any sort of food, clean and fit to eat, or that is put into such water, to be dressed, it becomes unclean and unfit to eat; for the vessel, being unclean, defiles the water, and the water defiles the food: Jarchi interprets this of water in general, which coming upon anything eatable, prepares it for uncleanness;

``we learn (says he) that no food is fit and prepared to receive defilement until water comes upon it once; and after it is come upon it once, it receives defilement for ever, even though it becomes dry;''

but the former seems to be the true sense:

and all drink that may be drank in every such vessel shall be
unclean;
whatever otherwise might be lawfully drank, yet being put into such a vessel, into which any unclean reptile was fallen, or being in it when it fell into it, became unclean and not fit to be drank; and those liquors which receive uncleanness, and make meats unclean by coming on them, according to the Misnic doctors ^F23, are these seven, dew, water, wine, oil, blood, milk, and honey.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Misn. Machshirin, c. 6. sect. 4.

Levítico 11:34 In-Context

32 »Cuando el cadáver de algún animal impuro toque algún objeto de madera, o ropa, o piel, o un saco o cualquier utensilio de uso cotidiano, tal objeto quedará impuro. Deberá lavarse con agua, y quedará impuro hasta el anochecer. Entonces volverá a ser puro.

33 »Si el cadáver de alguno de estos animales cae dentro de una vasija de barro, todo lo que la vasija contenga quedará impuro, y habrá que romperla.

34 Todo alimento sobre el que caiga agua de dicha vasija quedará impuro; lo mismo sucederá con todo líquido que haya en esa vasija.

35 Cualquier cosa sobre la que caiga parte de estos cadáveres quedará impura, y habrá que destruir los hornos y los fogones con los que haya entrado en contacto. Los cadáveres son impuros, y así deberán considerarlos.

36 Solo las fuentes o las cisternas que recogen agua permanecerán puras; cualquier otra cosa que toque un cadáver quedará impura.