translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET study note

text: Regarding “clean” versus “unclean,” see the note on Lev 10:10 .


text: A small animal generally understood to be Hyrax syriacus ; KJV, ASV, NIV “coney”; NKJV “rock hyrax.”


text: The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40 ). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.


text: Compare the regulations in Lev 11:2-8 .


text: The Hebrew term translated “law” ( תוֹרָה , torah ) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of . Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 13:59; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33 .