Leviticus 11:46 (DBY)

Passage

This is the law of cattle, and of fowl, and of every living soul that moveth in the waters, and of every soul that crawleth on the earth;

Nearby Context

Leviticus 11:44 For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45 For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Leviticus 11:46 This is the law of cattle, and of fowl, and of every living soul that moveth in the waters, and of every soul that crawleth on the earth;

Leviticus 11:47 to 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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "cattle", "fowl", "living", "soul", "moveth", "waters", and "crawleth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "cattle" and "fowl", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 45's "For I am Jehovah who brought you..." into verse 47's "to make a difference between the unclean...", so "cattle" and "fowl" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "cattle" and "fowl" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.