Deu 14:6 | TNotes | STEP | 14:6 split hooves and chews the cud: These criteria distinguished edible animals listed in 14:4-5 from those listed in 14:7-8 . Although the people experienced health benefits from observing these restrictions, a thing was actually clean or unclean only because God declared it to be such.

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‏ Deuteronomy 14:6

14:6 ^a split hooves and chews the cud: These criteria distinguished edible animals listed in 14:4-5 ^b from those listed in 14:7-8 ^c. Although the people experienced health benefits from observing these restrictions, a thing was actually clean or unclean only because God declared it to be such.