Leviticus 11:3-5

New English Translation

Footnotes

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