Leviticus 11:1
And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:2Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.
Leviticus 20:25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems
Acts 10:14But Peter said, Not so, Lord, because I have never eaten anything profane or unclean.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:1
The ceremonial law is described by the apostle ( Heb. ix. 9, 10 ) to consist, not only "in gifts and sacrifices," which hitherto have been treated of in this book, but "in meats, and drinks, and divers washings" from ceremonial uncleanness, the laws concerning which begin with this chapter, which puts a difference between some sorts of flesh-meat and others, allowing some to be eaten as clean and forbidding others as unclean. "There is one kind of flesh of men." Nature startles at the thought of eating this, and… Read the whole commentary →