Levitico 11:8

8 Non mangiate della carne loro, e non toccate le lor carogne; sienvi immonde.

Levitico 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}

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Levitico 11:8 In-Context

6 nè della lepre; conciossiachè ella rumini, ma non abbia il piè forcuto; siavi immonda;

7 nè del porco; conciossiachè egli abbia il piè forcuto, e spartito in due, ma non rumini; siavi immondo.

8 Non mangiate della carne loro, e non toccate le lor carogne; sienvi immonde.

9 Voi potrete mangiar di queste specie d’infra tutti gli animali acquatici, cioè: di tutti quelli che hanno pennette, e scaglie, nell’acque, così ne’ mari, come nei fiumi.

10 Ma siavi in abbominazione tutto ciò che non ha pennette, nè scaglie, così ne’ mari, come ne’ fiumi, fra tutti i rettili acquatici, e fra tutti gli animali che vivono nelle acque.