Leviticus 11:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 take seven and seven, the male and female.
Genesis 9:3And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
Leviticus 20:25Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.
Acts 10:14But Peter said: Far be it from me; for I never did eat any thing that is common and 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 →