Leviticus 11:8
Of their flesh shall yee not eate, and their carkeise shall yee not touch: for they shall bee vncleane to you.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2Either if one touche any vncleane thing, whether it be a carion of an vncleane beast, or a carion of vncleane cattel, or a carion of vncleane creeping things, and is not ware of it, yet he is vncleane, and hath offended:
Hosea 9:3They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.
Matthew 15:20These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.
Mark 7:15There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.
Acts 10:10Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.
Acts 15:29That is, that ye abstaine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.
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 →