Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:29 
ContextCreatures that Swarm on the Land
11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: 1 the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
Leviticus 11:46
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,
1 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.
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.”
