Leviticus 11:9

Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

In Context

8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

10But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 14:9Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

1 John 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:2-9

Distinction of Meats. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. 4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is… Read the whole commentary →

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