Leviticus 11:1
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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Genesis 7:2You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Leviticus 20:25“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
Acts 10:14But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common 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 →