Leviticus 11:1
The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
In Context
2“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:
Cross References
Genesis 7:2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Genesis 9:3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Leviticus 20:25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Acts 10:14“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure 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 →