Leviticus 11:40
Hebrew Bible
39 “‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening. 40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Leviticus 11:40
Septuagint
39 And if one of the livestock that is for you to eat dies, the person who touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening 40 And the person who eats from these carcasses will wash their garments and will be unclean until evening, and any person who picks up any of their carcasses will wash their garments and will bathe with water and will be unclean until evening 41 And every creeping animal that creeps along the earth, this will be an abomination to you; it will not be eaten
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Some of the changes and pluses in the textual witnesses of Leviticus had halakhic implications and such instances have been analyzed by Zacharias Frankel and Leo Prijs in important studies on the LXX and by Andrew Teeter for all the textual witnesses in equally penetrating investigations.19 In principle, harmonizing pluses could likewise have been based on legalistic interpretations and in some instances this may indeed have been the case. However, as a rule, it was the mere formal similarity between verses that led a scribe to adapt one verse to another one and not halakhic reasoning. For example, in Leviticus, some verses describe a cleaning ritual of two elements (11:25, 28, 40). Other verses contain a slightly expanded ritual consisting of three elements (15:5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 21, 22, 27; 17:15). It was to be expected that some manuscripts with verses containing two elements would harmonistically add the third one, “and shall wash himself in water.” This is indeed the case in the LXX of Leviticus 11:40 ..."
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