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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 11:3

any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Cud;   Food;   Goat;   Hoof;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Unclean;   Victuals;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Cleanness;   Meat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Domestic;   Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Clean and Unclean;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Manna;   Uncleanness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beast;   Hoof;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beast;   Clean, Cleanness;   Food;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cloven;   Footed;   Hoof;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chew;   Cloven;   Food;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beasts;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Clean and Unclean Animals;   Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Dietary Laws;   Mole;   Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
King James Version
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Lexham English Bible
Any among the animals that has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof, such you may eat.
New Century Version
You may eat any animal that has split hoofs completely divided and that chews the cud.
New English Translation
You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
Amplified Bible
'You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof [that is, a hoof split into two parts especially at its distal extremity] and chews the cud.
New American Standard Bible
'Whatever has a divided hoof, showing split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whatsoeuer parteth the hoofe, and is clouen footed, and cheweth the cudde, among the beastes, that shall ye eate.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
Contemporary English Version
any animal that has divided hoofs and chews the cud.
Complete Jewish Bible
any that has a separate hoof which is completely divided and chews the cud — these animals you may eat.
Darby Translation
Whatever hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts—that shall ye eat.
Easy-to-Read Version
If an animal has hooves that are split into two parts, and if that animal also chews the cud, then you may eat the meat from that animal.
English Standard Version
Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
George Lamsa Translation
Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud among the beasts, that you may eat.
Good News Translation
that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud,
Christian Standard Bible®
You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.
Literal Translation
Any that divides the hoof and is wholly clovenfooted, bringing up the cud, among the living things, you may eat it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What so euer hath hoffe, & deuydeth it in to two clawes, & cheweth cud amonge the beestes, that shal ye eate.
American Standard Version
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Bible in Basic English
You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whatsoeuer parteth the hoofe, and is clouen footed, and chaweth cud among the beastes, that shall ye eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
King James Version (1611)
Whatsoever parteth the hoofe, and is clouen footed, & cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Every beast parting the hoof and making divisions of two claws, and chewing the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.
English Revised Version
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Berean Standard Bible
You may eat any animal that has split hooves and that chews the cud.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ye schulen ete `al thing among beestis that hath a clee departid, and chewith code;
Young's Literal Translation
any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat.
Update Bible Version
Whatever parts the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
Whatever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
World English Bible
Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
New King James Version
Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud--that you may eat.
New Living Translation
You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud.
New Life Bible
You may eat any animal that has hard and divided feet and chews its food again.
New Revised Standard
Any animal that has divided hoofs and is cleft-footed and chews the cud—such you may eat.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud among beasts, that, may ye eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.
Revised Standard Version
Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
THE MESSAGE
"You may eat any animal that has a split hoof, divided in two, and that chews the cud, but not an animal that only chews the cud or only has a split hoof. For instance, the camel chews the cud but doesn't have a split hoof, so it's unclean. The rock badger chews the cud but doesn't have a split hoof and so it's unclean. The rabbit chews the cud but doesn't have a split hoof so is unclean. The pig has a split hoof, divided in two, but doesn't chew the cud and so is unclean. You may not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.

Contextual Overview

1And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 2"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the beast which you eat out of all the beasts which [are] on the earth: 3any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the beasts—you eat it.4Only, this you do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof: the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not dividing—it [is] unclean to you; 5and the hyrax, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof is not divided—it [is] unclean to you; 6and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof has not divided—it [is] unclean to you; 7and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it does not bring up the cud—it [is] unclean to you. 8You do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass—they [are] unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

parteth: Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 9:6, 2 Corinthians 6:17

cheweth: Deuteronomy 6:6, Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 16:3-8, Psalms 1:2, Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 2:10, Acts 17:11, 1 Timothy 4:15

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 1:7 - like the sole

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they say, "Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth."
Genesis 11:6
and YHWH says, "Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
Genesis 11:7
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion."
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
Genesis 14:10
And the Valley of Siddim [is] full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigor.
Exodus 2:3
and she has not been able to hide him anymore, and she takes an ark of rushes for him, and covers it with bitumen and with pitch, and puts the boy in it, and puts [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;
2 Samuel 12:31
and he has brought out the people who [are] in it, and sets [them] to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and has caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he does to all the cities of the sons of Ammon; and David turns back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They strengthen an evil thing for themselves, || They recount of the hiding of snares, || They have said, "Who looks at it?"
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed,.... That is, whose hoof is parted and cloven quite through; for there are some creatures that have partitions in their feet, but not quite through, they are parted above, but underneath are joined together by a skin; wherefore both these phrases are used to describe the beasts lawful to be eaten: the Egyptians seem to have borrowed this law from the Jews, for Chaeremon says x, that they abstain from such four footed beasts that have only one hoof, or have many partitions, or have no horns: and so the Targum of Jonathan adds here,

"which have horns,''

which, though not in the text, agrees well with the creatures allowed by this law to be eaten, see Deuteronomy 14:4 for such are all horned cattle; nor are there any cattle horned forbid to be eaten:

and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat: who having no upper teeth cannot thoroughly chew their food at once, and therefore bring it up again out of their stomachs into their mouths and chew it over again, that it may be better prepared for digestion in the stomach, and so yield better nourishment; and this makes the flesh of such creatures fitter for food: and these creatures have more stomachs than one; the ventricles for rumination are four; the first is the paunch, which in oxen is so big as to hold food of fifty pound weight, the second the honeycomb, the third the tripe, the fourth the honey tripe, and to which are helpful the pectoral muscle, the abdomen, with the diaphragm y: all this might have a moral and spiritual meaning in it, and may be applied either to ministers of the word; who ought rightly to divide the word of truth, and give to everyone their part, and who should walk uprightly according to it, and who should give themselves up wholly to the meditation of it, and thoroughly digest it; and study to show themselves workmen, that need not to be ashamed; or to private Christians, who have a discerning spirit in spiritual things, and can distinguish not only morality from immorality, but spiritual things from carnal, heavenly things from earthly, the voice of Christ from the voice of a stranger, and the doctrines of Christ from the doctrines of men; and who also walk as they should do, by faith on Christ, in the ways of God, and according to the Gospel; these chew the cud, meditate on the word, feed upon it while delivered, recall it, and have it brought to their remembrance by the divine Spirit, and ponder it in their hearts; see Psalms 1:1.

x Apud Porphyr. de Abstinentia, l. 4. sect. 7. y Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 278, 279.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Parteth ... - Rather, is clovenfooted and completely separates the hoofs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 11:3. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed — These two words mean the same thing - a divided hoof, such as that of the ox, where the hoof is divided into two toes, and each toe is cased with horn.

Cheweth the cud — Ruminates; casts up the grass, c., which had been taken into the stomach for the purpose of mastication. Animals which chew the cud, or ruminate, are provided with two, three or four stomachs. The ox has four: in the first or largest, called the ventriculus or paunch, the food is collected without being masticated, the grass, c., being received into it as the beast crops it from the earth. The food, by the force of the muscular coats of this stomach, and the liquors poured in, is sufficiently macerated after which, formed into small balls, it is thrown up by the oesophagus into the mouth, where it is made very small by mastication or chewing, and then sent down into the second stomach, into which the oesophagus or gullet opens, as well as into the first, ending exactly where the two stomachs meet. This is what is termed chewing the cud. The second stomach, which is called the reticulum, honeycomb, bonnet, or king's hood, has a great number of small shallow cells on its inward surface, of a pentagonal or five-sided form, exactly like the cells in a honey-comb in this the food is farther macerated, and then pushed onward into the third stomach, called the omasum or many-plies, because its inward surface is covered with a great number of thin membraneous partitions. From this the food passes into the fourth stomach, called the abomasum, or rede. In this stomach it is digested, and from the digested mass the chyle is formed, which, being absorbed by the lacteal vessels, is afterwards thrown into the mass of blood, and becomes the principle of nutrition to all the solids and fluids of the body. The intention of rumination, or chewing the cud, seems to be, that the food may be sufficiently comminuted, that, being more fully acted on by the stomachs, it may afford the greatest possible portion of nutritive juices.

The word cud is probably not originally Saxon, though found in that language in the same signification in which it is still used. Junius, with great show of probability, derives it from the Cambro-British chwyd, a vomit, as it is the ball of food vomited, or thrown up, from the first stomach or paunch through the oesophagus into the mouth, which is called by this name. Those who prefer a Saxon derivation may have it in the verb [Anglo-Saxon] whence our word chew; and so cud might be considered a contraction of chewed, but this is not so likely as the preceding.


 
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