Leviticus 11:2
“Give these instructions to the Israelites. These are the animals you are allowed to eat:
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1The Lord told Moses and Aaron,
3any animal that both has a divided hoof and also chews the cud.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:4However, if it either chews the cud, or has a divided hoof, then you may not eat it. These include: the camel, which though it chews the cud doesn't have a divided hoof, so it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:11They are repulsive. You must not eat their meat, and you must treat their dead bodies as repulsive.
Leviticus 11:21But you can eat the following kinds of flying insects that crawl: those that have jointed legs they use to jump.
Leviticus 11:34If water from that pot touches any food, that food becomes unclean, and any drink from a pot like that also becomes unclean.
Leviticus 11:41Every animal that crawls along the ground is repulsive—you must not eat it.
Deuteronomy 14:4These are the animals that you are allowed to eat: cattle, sheep, goats,
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 →