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45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God,[a] and you are to be holy because I am holy.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:45 tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

46 This is the law[a] of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures[b] that swarm on the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:46 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תּוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 11. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 13:59; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.
  2. Leviticus 11:46 tn Heb “for all the creatures.”