³ tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”

¹ tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

¹ tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”

¹ tn Heb “and his unclean condition is on him.”

¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

¹ sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).

¹ tn Heb “unclean of a person,” a euphemism for “unclean because of a dead person”; see Lev 21:11; Num 6:6. Cf. NAB “unclean from contact with a corpse.”

³ tn Grk “having an unclean, demonic spirit,” that is, an evil spirit. This is the only place Luke uses this lengthy phrase. Normally he simply says an “unclean spirit.”

² tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

² tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

¹ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

³ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

² sn According to the next verse, these three unclean spirits are spirits of demons.

² sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits. See Luke 4:33.

¹ tn Heb “who had separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to them.”

² tn The meaning, of course, is to be ceremonially unclean, and therefore disqualified from entering the sanctuary.

³ tc The MT has “to defile,” but Smr, LXX, and Syriac have “to uncleanness.”

¹ tn Heb “in the menstruation of her impurity”; NIV “during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”

⁵ tn That is, it must be a clean animal, not an unclean animal (cf. Lev 11).

¹ tn Heb “to teach in the day of the unclean and in the day of the clean.”