Levitikus 11:8

8 Von ihrem Fleische sollt ihr nicht essen und ihr Aas nicht anrühren: unrein sollen sie euch sein.

Levitikus 11:8 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 11:8

Of their flesh shall ye not eat
Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare:

and their carcass shall ye not touch;
which must not be understood of touching them in any sense; for then it would have been unlawful for a Jew to have rode upon a camel, or to take out and make use of hog's lard in medicine; but of touching them in order to kill them, and prepare them for food, and eat them; and indeed all unnecessary touching of them is forbidden, lest it should bring them to the eating of them; though perhaps it may chiefly respect the touching of them dead:

they [are] unclean to you:
one and all of them; for as this was said of each of them in particular, so now of all of them together; and which holds good of all wild creatures not named, to whom the description above belongs, and which used to be eaten by other nations; some of which were called Pamphagi, from eating all sorts, and others Agriophagi, from eating wild creatures, as lions, panthers, elephants {l}


FOOTNOTES:

F12 Plin. l. 6. c. 30. Solinus, c. 43.

Levitikus 11:8 In-Context

6 und den Hasen, denn er wiederkäut, aber er hat keine gespaltenen Hufe: unrein soll er euch sein;
7 und das Schwein, denn es hat gespaltene Hufe, und zwar ganz gespaltene Hufe, aber es wiederkäut nicht: unrein soll es euch sein.
8 Von ihrem Fleische sollt ihr nicht essen und ihr Aas nicht anrühren: unrein sollen sie euch sein.
9 Dieses sollt ihr essen von allem, was in den Wassern ist: alles, was Floßfedern und Schuppen hat in den Wassern, in den Meeren und in den Flüssen, das sollt ihr essen;
10 aber alles, was keine Floßfedern und Schuppen hat in den Meeren und in den Flüssen, von allem Gewimmel der Wasser und von jedem lebendigen Wesen, das in den Wassern ist, sie sollen euch ein Greuel sein;
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