Leviticus 11:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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Genesis 7:2From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.
Genesis 9:3And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,
Leviticus 20:25Therefore, you must also separate the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean. Do not pollute your souls with cattle, or birds, or anything that moves upon the earth, and which I have shown you to be unclean.
Acts 10:14But Peter said: “Far be it from me, lord. For I have never eaten anything 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 →