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Leviticus 11:44-46
New English Translation
Leviticus 11:44-46
New English Translation
44 for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground, 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,
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- Leviticus 11:45 tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”
- 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.
- Leviticus 11:46 tn Heb “for all the creatures.”
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