Leviticus 11:8

'Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come — unclean they [are] to you.

Young's Literal Translation

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

7and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up — unclean it [is] to you.

9'This ye do eat of all which [are] in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:2'Or when a person cometh against any thing unclean, or against a carcase of an unclean beast, or against a carcase of unclean cattle, or against a carcase of an unclean teeming creature, and it hath been hidden from him, and he unclean, and guilty;

Hosea 9:3They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim [to] Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

Matthew 15:20these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

Mark 7:15there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Acts 10:10and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

Acts 15:29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

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 →

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