Leviticus 11:2-3

11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals ¹  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 ² ) and that also chews the cud. ³ 

Leviticus 11:22

11:22 These you may eat from them: ⁴  the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

Leviticus 11:39

Edible Land Quadrupeds

11:39 “‘Now if an animal ⁵  that you may eat dies, ⁶  whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 14:47

14:47 Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.

Leviticus 26:10

26:10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ⁷  and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.

² tn Heb “every divider of hoof and cleaver of the cleft of hooves”; KJV, ASV “parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted.”

³ tn Heb “bringer up of the cud” (a few of the ancient versions include the conjunction “and,” but it does not appear in the MT). The following verses make it clear that both dividing the hoof and chewing the cud were required; one of these conditions would not be enough to make the animal suitable for eating without the other.

³ tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.

⁴ tn This word for “animal” refers to land animal quadrupeds, not just any beast that dwells on the land (cf. 11:2).

⁵ tn Heb “which is food for you” or “which is for you to eat.”

⁵ tn Heb “old [produce] growing old.”

⁶ tn Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”