Leviticus 11:8

You shall neither eat their flesh nor touch their carcases; they are unclean to you.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

In Context

7And the swine, because he parteth the sole, and divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, he shall be unclean to you.

9And these you may eat of all that are in the waters; everyone that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, of them you may eat.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:2Or if a man shall have touched anything unclean, whether the carcase of an unclean beast, or the carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean reptile, and it be hidden from him, he shall be defiled and guilty.

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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