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Text -- Leviticus 11:1-23 (NET)
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Clean and Unclean Land Creatures
11:1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron , saying to them,
11:2 “Tell the Israelites : ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land .
11:3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two ) and that also chews the cud .
11:4 However , you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves : The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided .
11:5 The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided .
11:6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided .
11:7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two ), even though it does not chew the cud .
11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses ; they are unclean to you.
Clean and Unclean Water Creatures
11:9 “‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water : Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales , whether in the seas or in the streams , you may eat .
11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales , whether in the seas or in the streams , from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water , are detestable to you.
11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest .
11:12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
Clean and Unclean Birds
11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten , because they are detestable : the griffon vulture , the bearded vulture , the black vulture ,
11:14 the kite , the buzzard of any kind ,
11:15 every kind of crow ,
11:16 the eagle owl , the short-eared owl , the long-eared owl , the hawk of any kind ,
11:17 the little owl , the cormorant , the screech owl ,
11:18 the white owl , the scops owl , the osprey ,
11:19 the stork , the heron of any kind , the hoopoe , and the bat .
Clean and Unclean Insects
11:20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
11:21 However , this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours , which have jointed legs to hop with on the land .
11:22 These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind , the bald locust of any kind , the cricket of any kind , the grasshopper of any kind .
11:23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Food |
JOHN THE BAPTIST |
UNCLEANNESS |
WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
TOTEMISM |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
Animal |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
ISRAEL, RELIGION OF, 1 |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
GENESIS, 3 |
Israel |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
Animals |
Unclean |
Clean |
Sanitation |
Cormorant |
Fish |
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NET Notes: Lev 11:3 Heb “bringer up of the cud” (a few of the ancient versions include the conjunction “and,” but it does not appear in the MT). T...
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NET Notes: Lev 11:5 A small animal generally understood to be Hyrax syriacus; KJV, ASV, NIV “coney”; NKJV “rock hyrax.”
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NET Notes: Lev 11:7 The meaning and basic rendering of this clause is quite certain, but the verb for “chewing” the cud here is not the same as the preceding ...
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NET Notes: Lev 11:8 The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail...
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NET Notes: Lev 11:13 For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.
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NET Notes: Lev 11:14 Heb “and the buzzard to its kind” (see also vv. 16 and 19 for the same expression “of any kind”).
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NET Notes: Lev 11:15 Heb “every crow to its kind.” Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) render this as “raven.”
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NET Notes: Lev 11:16 Literally, “the daughter of the wasteland.” Various proposals for the species of bird referred to here include “owl” (KJV), ...
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NET Notes: Lev 11:21 Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).
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