Leviticus 11:8

8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:8 in Other Translations

8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

8 You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

8 You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses. They are ceremonially unclean for you.

8 You may not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

8 Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.

8 Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses-they are unclean for you.

8 " 'You must not eat the meat of those animals. You must not even touch their dead bodies. They are not "clean" for you.

Leviticus 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.

Leviticus 11:8 In-Context

6 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

7 And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

9 “ ‘Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales.

10 But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to regard as unclean.

Cross References

• 1. S Leviticus 5:2; Isaiah 52:11; Hebrews 9:10