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  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000396",
      "label": "Cloven/divided hoof as literal zoological and dietary criterion",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "In Leviticus 11, a completely divided hoof is one of two actual criteria used to classify land animals as permitted for Israel to eat.",
      "not_always": "The divided hoof works together with chewing the cud; neither criterion is presented as an independent moral allegory.",
      "scope_note": "The divided hoof works together with chewing the cud; neither criterion is presented as an independent moral allegory.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The divided hoof works together with chewing the cud; neither criterion is presented as an independent moral allegory.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000598",
              "osis_start": "Lev.11.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 11:3-8",
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            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000628",
              "osis_start": "Lev.11.26",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 11:26",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000150",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible",
              "title": "Leviticus 11 divided/cloven hoof as clean-animal criterion",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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        }
      ]
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000397",
      "label": "Cloven hoof = separation from the world in earthly walk",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list assigns a spiritual separation-from-the-world meaning to the divided hoof.",
      "not_always": "The Levitical clean-animal criteria must not be converted into moral allegory without canonical authorization.",
      "scope_note": "The Levitical clean-animal criteria must not be converted into moral allegory without canonical authorization.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000397",
          "statement": "No biblical text interprets the cloven/divided hoof as separation from the world in the believer's walk.",
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          ],
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          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "The Levitical clean-animal criteria must not be converted into moral allegory without canonical authorization.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "This appears to be later devotional/allegorical extension from the physical division of the hoof rather than inspired interpretation.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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          ],
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000150",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible",
              "title": "Leviticus 11 divided/cloven hoof as clean-animal criterion",
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}