Leviticus 11 · Verse 47

Leviticus 11:47

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:47, King James Version

Leviticus 11:47 in other translations

BSBYou must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
WEBto make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”
ASVto make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
YLTto make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'
DARBYto make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that is to be eaten and the beast that is not to be eaten.
BBEMarking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.
WebsterTo make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

What does Leviticus 11:47 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
47. make a difference between the unclean and the clean--that is, between animals used and not used for food. It is probable that the laws contained in this chapter were not entirely new, but only gave the sanction of divine enactment to ancient usages. Some of the prohibited animals have, on physiological grounds, been everywhere rejected by the general sense or experience of mankind; while others may have been declared unclean from their unwholesomeness in warm countries or from some reasons, which are now imperfectly known, connected with contemporary idolatry.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Leviticus 11:47 in the original Hebrew

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לְהַבְדִּ֕ילle.hav.Dilto separateH914
בֵּ֥יןbeinbetweenH996
הַטָּמֵ֖אha.ta.Me'the unclean [thing]H2931
וּבֵ֣יןu.Veinand betweenH996
הַטָּהֹ֑רha.ta.Horthe pure [thing]H2889
וּבֵ֤יןu.Veinand betweenH996
הַֽחַיָּה֙ha.chai.Yahthe living creatureH2416
הַֽנֶּאֱכֶ֔לֶתha.ne.'e.Khe.letwhich is eatenH398
וּבֵין֙u.Veinand betweenH996
הַֽחַיָּ֔הha.chai.Yahthe living creatureH2416
אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherwhichH834
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תֵאָכֵֽל\׃\ \פte.'a.Khelit will be eatenH398

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Cross references for Leviticus 11:47

  • Leviticus 10:10

    And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

  • Ezekiel 44:23

    And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Romans 14:13-23

    Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Let not then your good be evil spoken of: …

  • Romans 14:2-3

    For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

  • Malachi 3:18

    Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
10:10; Eze 44:23; Mal 3:18; Ro 14:2,3,13-23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Leviticus 11:46

    This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

  • Leviticus 11:47

    To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

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Leviticus 11:47 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Para hacer diferencia entre inmundo y limpio, y entre los animales que se pueden comer y los animales que no se pueden comer.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
afin de discerner entre ce qui est impur et ce qui est pur, et entre l’animal qu’on mange et l’animal qu’on ne mangera pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871
um zu unterscheiden zwischen dem Unreinen und dem Reinen, und zwischen dem Getier, das gegessen wird, und dem Getier, das nicht gegessen werden soll.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ut differentias noveritis mundi et immundi, et sciatis quid comedere et quid respuere debeatis.