Leviticus 7:26

7:26 And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ¹ 

Leviticus 11:2-3

11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals ²  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 ³ ) and that also chews the cud. ⁴ 

Leviticus 11:46

11:46 This is the law ⁵  of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures ⁶  that swarm on the land,

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¹ tn Heb “and any blood you must not eat in any of your dwelling places, to the bird and to the animal.”

² tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.

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

⁴ 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.

⁵ sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 11. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 13:59; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.

⁶ tn Heb “for all the creatures.”