Leviticus 11:1
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:2Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
Leviticus 20:25And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring [it] as unclean.
Acts 10:14And Peter said, In no wise, 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 →