Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:7
Context11:7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two 1 ), even though it does not chew the cud. 2
Leviticus 1:17
Context1:17 and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. 3 Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire – it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
Leviticus 11:26
Context11:26 “‘All 4 animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two 5 and do not chew the cud 6 are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. 7
[11:7] 1 tn See the note on Lev 11:3.
[11:7] 2 tn 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 verses, where the expression is “to bring up the cud” (see the note on v. 3 above). It appears to be a cognate verb for the noun “cud” (גֵּרָה, gerah) and could mean either “to drag up” (i.e., from the Hebrew Qal of גָרָר [garar] meaning “to drag,” referring to the dragging the cud up and down between the stomach and mouth of the ruminant animal; so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:647, 653) or “to chew” (i.e., from the Hebrew Niphal [or Qal B] of גָרָר used in a reciprocal sense; so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 149, and compare BDB 176 s.v. גָרַר, “to chew,” with HALOT 204 s.v. גרר qal.B, “to ruminate”).
[1:17] 3 tn Heb “he shall not divide it.” Several Hebrew
[11:26] 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.
[11:26] 6 tn Heb “divides hoof and cleft it does not cleave”; KJV “divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted”; NLT “divided but unsplit hooves.”
[11:26] 7 tn See the note on Lev 11:3.
[11:26] 8 sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.
