Imamat 11:2-3

11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals ¹  that are on the land. 11:3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two ² ) and that also chews the cud. ³ 

Imamat 11:26

Inedible Land Quadrupeds

11:26 “‘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 

[11:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.

[11:3]  ² tn Heb “every divider of hoof and cleaver of the cleft of hooves”; KJV, ASV “parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted.”

[11:3]  ³ tn Heb “bringer up of the cud” (a few of the ancient versions include the conjunction “and,” but it does not appear in the MT). The following verses make it clear that both dividing the hoof and chewing the cud were required; one of these conditions would not be enough to make the animal suitable for eating without the other.

[11:26]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn See the note on Lev 11:3.

[11:26]  ⁷ sn Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8.