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However, you must not eat these[a] from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you[b] because it chews the cud[c] even though its hoof is not divided.[d] The rock badger[e] is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided. The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:4 tn Heb “this,” but as a collective plural (see the following context).
  2. Leviticus 11:4 sn Regarding “clean” versus “unclean,” see the note on Lev 10:10.
  3. Leviticus 11:4 tn Heb “because a chewer of the cud it is” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
  4. Leviticus 11:4 tn Heb “and hoof there is not dividing” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
  5. Leviticus 11:5 sn A small animal generally understood to be Hyrax syriacus; KJV, ASV, NIV “coney”; NKJV “rock hyrax.”

“‘There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them.(A) The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

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