Leviticus 11:1
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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Genesis 7:2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things:
Leviticus 20:25Ye shall therefore distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl, or by any manner of living animal that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Acts 10:14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing 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 →