Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
New American Standard Bible
Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, 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.
Holman Bible
You may eat any animal with divided hooves and that chews the cud.
International Standard Version
You may eat any animal that has divided hooves with cloven feet and that ruminates its cud,
American Standard Version
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Amplified
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.
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.
Darby Translation
Whatever hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts that shall ye eat.
Julia Smith Translation
All cleaving the cloven hoof, and splitting, split the cloven hoof, and lifting up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it
King James 2000
Whatsoever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, and chews the cud, among the animals, that shall you eat.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Any among the animals that has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in [the] hoof, such you may eat.
Modern King James verseion
Whatever divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, chewing the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
whatsoever hath hoof and divideth it into two claws and cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
The Emphasized Bible
Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud among beasts, that, may ye eat.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat.
Themes
Animals » Ordained as food for man
Beasts » Clean » How distinguished
Cleanness » What animals are clean
Goat » Designated as one of the ceremonially clean animals to be eaten
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 11:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Clean And Unclean Animals
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. 4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart.
Deuteronomy 16:3-8
Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, for thou came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou may remember the day when thou came forth
Psalm 1:1-2
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,
Proverbs 2:1-2
My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul,
Proverbs 9:6
Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
Acts 17:11
But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the Scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you
1 Timothy 4:15
Think on these things--exist within these things--so that thy progress may be visible among all.