The Hebrew and Greek that is translated with “clothes” or similar in English is translated in Enlhet as “crawling-in-stuff” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1971, p. 169ff. ) and in Noongar as bwoka or “Kangaroo skin” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).
Translation commentary on Leviticus 11:40
Who eats of its carcass: some may wish to translate “who eats any meat from the [dead] animal.” This detail is unnecessary in the rest of the paragraph, because unclean animals are dealt with for the most part.
Shall wash his clothes: see verse 25.
Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
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