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Leviticus 11:26

in Leviticus 11

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Every beast which parteth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, is unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

KJV

The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

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This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

These creatures will make you unclean

on Leviticus 11:24-28

From here the subject is touching a carcass. The man washes his clothes and is unclean until evening, with no sacrifice. Leviticus 5:2 takes up the man who touches a carcass unaware, and there guilt and an offering follow.

This site's exposition

Every animal with hooves not completely divided

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown apply this verse to animals with a single hoof, such as horses and donkeys. They add animals whose feet divide into paws, such as lions. Verse 27 then names the pawed animals directly.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

The carcasses of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not cloven footed,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But the uncleanness continued only till the evening, to signify that all ceremonial pollutions were to come to an end by the death of Christ in the evening of the world. And we must learn, by daily renewing our repentance every night for the sins of the day, to cleanse ourselves from the pollution we contract by them, that we may not lie down in our uncleanness.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

every beast . . . not cloven-footed--The prohibited animals under this description include not only the beasts which have a single hoof, as horses and asses, but those also which divided the foot into paws, as lions, tigers, &c.

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The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • לְֽכָל־to every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַבְּהֵמָ֡ה<the> animal

    habehemahH929 →190 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הִוא֩it

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • מַפְרֶ֨סֶת[is] dividing in two

    mafresetH6536 →14 times

  • פַּרְסָ֜הa hoof

    parsahH6541 →21 times

  • וְשֶׁ֣סַע׀and a cleft

    veshesa'H8157 →4 times

  • אֵינֶ֣נָּהnot it

    ʾeinenahH369 →789 times

  • שֹׁסַ֗עַת[is] cleaving

    shosaatH8156 →9 times

  • וְגֵרָה֙and cud

    vegerahH1625 →11 times

  • אֵינֶ֣נָּהnot it

    ʾeinenahH369 →789 times

  • מַעֲלָ֔ה[is] bringing up

    maalahH5927 →890 times

  • טְמֵאִ֥ים[are] unclean

    temeimH2931 →88 times

  • הֵ֖םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • לָכֶ֑םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ<the> [one who] touches

    hanogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בָּהֶ֖ם<in> <the> them

    bahem

  • יִטְמָֽא׃he will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 11 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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