Leviticus 11:1
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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Genesis 7:2Of every clean animal you will bring with you seven males and seven females. From the animals that are not clean, of them bring two, the male and his mate.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Leviticus 20:25You must therefore distinguish between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean birds and the clean. You must not defile yourselves with unclean animals or birds or with any creature that crawls along the ground, which I have separated as unclean from you.
Acts 10:14But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that was defiled and 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 →