This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
- KJV 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:
- BSB This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
- ESV This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,
- NKJV ‘This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
- NLT “These are the instructions regarding land animals, birds, marine creatures, and animals that scurry along the ground.
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Quick answer
This verse summarizes the foregoing as the law concerning animals, birds, water creatures, and crawling things. It frames the dietary code as a unified body of instruction.
Overview
A concluding summary identifies these regulations as the law covering every category of creature—land animals, birds, sea life, and swarming things. The structured recap shows the chapter as a deliberate, comprehensive ordering of Israel's life. Such order reflects the God of creation who distinguishes and separates, as He did from the beginning (Genesis 1).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Lev 14:54This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
- Lev 15:32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
- Lev 7:37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
- Ezek 43:12This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
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