Levítico 11:8

8 Vocês não comerão a carne desses animais nem tocarão em seus cadáveres; considerem-nos 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 A lebre, embora rumine, não tem casco fendido; considerem-na impura.

7 E o porco, embora tenha casco fendido e dividido em duas unhas, não rumina; considerem-no impuro.

8 Vocês não comerão a carne desses animais nem tocarão em seus cadáveres; considerem-nos impuros.

9 “De todas as criaturas que vivem nas águas do mar e dos rios, vocês poderão comer todas as que possuem barbatanas e escamas.

10 Mas todas as criaturas que vivem nos mares ou nos rios, que não possuem barbatanas e escamas—quer entre todas as pequenas criaturas que povoam as águas, quer entre todos os outros animais das águas—, serão proibidas para vocês.