{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lev011_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lev011_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lev011_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/lev011.htm","summary":"This is Leviticus chapter 11, a ritual law text from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, presented in parallel columns showing the King James Version (KJV) in English and the Septuagint (LXX) in ancient Greek. The chapter sets out the dietary laws (kashrut) given by God to Moses and Aaron: land animals must both split the hoof and chew the cud to be permissible (excluding camels, rock hyrax, hare, and pig); water creatures must have fins and scales; a specific list of birds is forbidden; and most insects are prohibited except certain locusts. The text also details ritual impurity rules for carcasses \u2014 touching or carrying a dead unclean animal renders a person unclean until evening, and contaminated vessels must be washed or destroyed. The passage grounds these laws theologically in God's call for Israel to be holy as God is holy, and frames them as distinguishing Israel as a people redeemed from Egypt. The parallel KJV/LXX presentation is a scholarly or devotional format useful for comparing translation choices, notably where the Greek Septuagint diverges from the Hebrew (e.g., rendering the coney/hyrax as *dasypous* \"hare\" and listing the crocodile among unclean creeping things). This would interest readers studying biblical dietary law, ancient translation history, or the development of Jewish halakhic tradition.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 11","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":3457}