Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:2 
Context11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals 1 that are on the land.
Leviticus 11:46-47
Context11:46 This is the law 2 of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures 3 that swarm on the land, 11:47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
1 tn Heb “the animal,” but as a collective plural, and so throughout this chapter.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “for all the creatures.”
