Leviticus 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘All ¹  animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two ²  and do not chew the cud ³  are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. ⁴ 

Leviticus 11:32

11:32 Also, anything they fall on ⁵  when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water ⁶  and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

¹ tn Heb “to all” (cf. the note on v. 24). This and the following verses develop more fully the categories of uncleanness set forth in principle in vv. 24-25.

² tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”

³ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

⁴ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.

⁵ tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”

⁶ tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”