Leviticus 11:1

And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying to them:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

In Context

2Speak with the children of Israel, saying: These are the animals which you may eat of all the beasts which are upon the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:2Of all clean animals take thou seven and seven, male and female; and of animals not clean, two and two, male and female.

Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat; as the green herb I have given you the whole.

Leviticus 20:25And you shall make distinction between animals clean and unclean, and between fowls unclean and clean, and not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated (as to be) unto you 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 →

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