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Do notאַלmake yourselves uncleanתִּטַּמְּאוּby anyבְּכָלof these things,אֵלֶּהforכִּיby allבְכָלthese thingsאֵלֶּהthe nationsהַגּוֹיִםthatאֲשֶׁרIאֲנִיam driving outמְשַׁלֵּחַbefore youמִפְּנֵיכֶםhave become unclean.נִטְמְאוּ
Leviticus 18:24
Study it in the app“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these things the nations that I am driving out before you have become unclean.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Leviticus 18:24, word by word
- make yourselves uncleanתִּטַּמְּאוּtitamu
be unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “titamu” appears- the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- am driving outמְשַׁלֵּחַmeshaleach
send away
To send away, or divorce one's wife.
Where else “meshaleach” appears- before youפְּנֵיpene
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pene” appears
The context
23And you shall not lie with any beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to mate with it; it is perversion.
24 · This verse (above)
25So the land became unclean, and I punished its iniquity on it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.