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45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God,[a] and you are to be holy because I am holy. 46 This is the law[b] of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures[c] that swarm on the land, 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.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:45 tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”
  2. Leviticus 11:46 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תּוֹרָה, 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. Leviticus 11:46 tn Heb “for all the creatures.”