Leviticus 11:47

to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

In Context

46This is the law of the beast, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:10and that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Malachi 3:18Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Romans 14:13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:44-47

43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. 44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the… Read the whole commentary →

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