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to tell the Israelites these things.

These are the animals that you may eat:

Of all the mammals on land, you may eat any that have hoofs with splits in the hoofs and that rechew their food.[a] But you are not to eat the following, which only rechew their food or only have hoofs: The camel, although it rechews its food, has no hoofs. It is unclean for you.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:3 Or bring up the cud. The Hebrew term refers to animals that rechew their food a second time after swallowing it and then regurgitating it or excreting it. This list is not limited to true ruminants.