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27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours[a] are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 28 and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

Creatures that Swarm on the Land

29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land:[b] the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:27 tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Cf. Lev 11:20-23.
  2. Leviticus 11:29 tn For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.