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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues telling Moses and Aaron which animals the people are to consider unclean.
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# You must not make yourselves unclean ... you should be made impure by them
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Yahweh repeats the same idea twice in order to strengthen the command that they are not to eat any unclean animal. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# You must not make yourselves unclean
A person who is unacceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if he were physically unclean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# that you should be made impure by them
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This can be translated in active form. AT: "so that you are no longer pure because of them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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