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Leviticus 11:39-47

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39 "And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
40 and 1whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41 2"Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten.
42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.
43 3You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.
44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and 4be holy, for I am holy. 5You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
45 6For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. 7You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."
46 This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,
47 8to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.
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Leviticus 11:39-47 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 11

This chapter treats of creatures clean and unclean, as fit or not fit to be eaten; and first of beasts, whose signs are given, Le 11:1-8 then of fishes, which are likewise described, Le 11:9-12 after that of fowls, and those that are not to be eaten are particularly named, Le 11:13-19 next of creeping things, which are distinguished into two sorts, as flying creeping things, of which those that are unclean, their carcasses are not even to be touched, as neither the carcasses of unclean beasts, Le 11:20-28 and creeping things on the earth, which defile by touching, as well as eating, and make everything unclean, upon which, being dead, they fall, Le 11:29-43 and these laws are enforced from the holiness and goodness of God, Le 11:44,45 and the chapter is concluded with a recapitulation of them, Le 11:46,47.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

  • 1. Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:8; Deuteronomy 14:21; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 44:31
  • 2. [ver. 29]
  • 3. Leviticus 20:25
  • 4. Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7, 26; Leviticus 21:8; Exodus 19:6; Cited 1 Peter 1:16; [1 Thessalonians 4:7]
  • 5. [See ver. 43 above]
  • 6. Exodus 6:7
  • 7. [See ver. 44 above]
  • 8. Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 20:25
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