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General Information:
Yahweh continues telling Moses and Aaron what he permits the people to eat and what he forbids them to eat.
split hoof
This means a hoof that is split into two parts instead of being one whole.
chews the cud
This means an animal that brings its food up from its stomach and chews it again.
some animals either chew the cud or have a split hoof
That is, they have one or the other, but not both.
the camel is unclean to you
The camel being unfit for the people to eat is spoken of as if it were physically unclean. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)