Leviticus 11:1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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Genesis 7:2Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
Genesis 9:3Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
Leviticus 20:25So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.
Acts 10:14But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common 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 →