Leviticus 22:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.

New Living Translation
or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.

English Standard Version
and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—

Berean Study Bible
or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

New American Standard Bible
or a man who touches any swarming things by which he is made unclean, or touches any person by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness;

NASB 1995
or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made unclean, or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness;

NASB 1977
or if a man touches any teeming things, by which he is made unclean, or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness;

Amplified Bible
or whoever touches any crawling thing by which he is made unclean, or any person by whom he is made unclean, whatever it may be,

Christian Standard Bible
or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean—whatever his uncleanness—

Holman Christian Standard Bible
or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean--whatever his uncleanness--

Contemporary English Version
or if you have touched an unclean creature of any sort, including an unclean person.

Good News Translation
or if he has touched an unclean animal or person.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
an unclean swarming creature, or an unclean person

International Standard Version
or who becomes unclean by touching a creeping creature or another human being, whatever the uncleanness may be—

NET Bible
or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person's impurity--
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

New King James Version
or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—

King James 2000 Bible
Or whosoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may be made unclean, whatsoever his uncleanness may be;

New Heart English Bible
or whoever touches any crawling creature, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

World English Bible
or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

American King James Version
Or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

American Standard Version
or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

A Faithful Version
Or a man who touches any swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or touches a man who is unclean to him, by any uncleanness he has,

Darby Bible Translation
or a man that toucheth any crawling thing whereby he becometh unclean, or a man by whom he may become unclean, whatever may be his uncleanness,

English Revised Version
or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

Webster's Bible Translation
Or whoever toucheth any creeping animal, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he hath:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or the man that toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made vncleane, or a man, by whom he may take vncleannesse, whatsoeuer vncleannesse he hath,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Or whosoeuer toucheth any creeping thyng, whereby he may be made vncleane, or a man, of whom he may take vncleannes, whatsoeuer vncleannes he hath:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
or who so toucheth eny worme that is vncleane vnto him, or a ma yt is vncleane vnto him,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
or whosoeuer twitcheth any worme that is vncleane to him or man that is vncleane to him what soeuer vnclennesse he hath:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
or a man who comes against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness—

Young's Literal Translation
or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness --

Smith's Literal Translation
Or a man who shall touch upon any creeping thing which shall be unclean to him, or upon a man who shall be unclean to him for all his uncleanness;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling,

Catholic Public Domain Version
and whoever has touched a creeping thing, or any kind of unclean thing, the touching of which is filthy,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Or a man who will touch any creeping thing that is defiled to him or with a man who is defiled to him in all his defilement;

Lamsa Bible
Or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
or whosoever toucheth any swarming thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
or whosoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him, or who shall touch a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all his uncleanness:
















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