11:26 “‘All 5 animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two 6 and do not chew the cud 7 are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. 8
1 tn Heb “this,” but as a collective plural (see the following context).
2 sn Regarding “clean” versus “unclean,” see the note on Lev 10:10.
3 tn Heb “because a chewer of the cud it is” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
4 tn Heb “and hoof there is not dividing” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
5 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.
6 tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”
7 tn See the note on Lev 11:3.
8 sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.
9 tn Heb “a memorial of loud blasts.” Although the term for “horn” does not occur here, allowing for the possibility that vocal “shouts” of acclamation are envisioned (see P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 325), the “blast” of the shofar (a trumpet made from a ram’s “horn”) is most likely what is intended. On this occasion, the loud blasts on the horn announced the coming of the new year on the first day of the seventh month (see the explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 387, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 160).