Levítico 11:8

8 »No comerán la carne ni tocarán el cadáver de estos animales. Ustedes los considerarán animales impuros.

Levítico 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.

Levítico 11:8 In-Context

6 »La liebre, porque es rumiante pero no tiene la pezuña partida; este animal será impuro para ustedes.

7 »El cerdo, porque tiene la pezuña partida en dos pero no es rumiante; este animal será impuro para ustedes.

8 »No comerán la carne ni tocarán el cadáver de estos animales. Ustedes los considerarán animales impuros.

9 »De los animales que hay en las aguas, es decir, en los mares y en los ríos, ustedes podrán comer los que tengan aletas y escamas.

10 En cambio, considerarán inmundos a todos los animales de los mares y de los ríos que no tengan aletas ni escamas, sean reptiles u otros animales acuáticos.