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Levitico 11:10

Listen to Levitico 11:10
10 Ma tutto ciò che non ha né pinne né scaglie, tanto ne’ mari quanto ne’ fiumi, fra tutto ciò che si muove nelle acque e tutto ciò che vive nelle acque, l’avrete in abominio.

Levitico 11:10 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 11:10

And all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, and in
the rivers
Such as eels, lampreys, &c.

of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is]
in the waters;
the former of these are interpreted by Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom of little fishes that have but a small body, and such as are created out of the waters; and the latter, of such as are produced of a male and female; or, as Maimonides F18 explains it, the one signifies the lesser creatures, such as worms and horse leeches; the other greater ones, sea beasts, as sea dogs

they shall be an abomination to you;
not only unclean, and so unfit to eat, but to be had in abhorrence and detestation, as being exceeding disagreeable and unwholesome; and, as a learned man observes F19, to these prohibited in general belong all those animals in lakes, rivers, or seas, which are of a slow motion, and which, because of the slow motion of their bodies, do not so well digest their food; and for that may be compared with four footed beasts that have but one belly, and so unwholesome as they.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 Hilchot Maacolot Asuret, l. 1. c. 2. sect. 12.
F19 Scheuchzer. ut supra, (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2.) p. 287.
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Levitico 11:10 In-Context

8 Non mangerete della loro carne e non toccherete i loro corpo morti; li considererete come impuri.
9 Questi sono gli animali che potrete mangiare fra tutti quelli che sono nell’acqua. Mangerete tutto ciò che ha pinne e scaglie nelle acque, tanto ne’ i mari quanto ne’ fiumi.
10 Ma tutto ciò che non ha né pinne né scaglie, tanto ne’ mari quanto ne’ fiumi, fra tutto ciò che si muove nelle acque e tutto ciò che vive nelle acque, l’avrete in abominio.
11 Essi vi saranno in abominio; non mangerete della loro carne, e avrete in abominio i loro corpi morti.
12 Tutto ciò che non ha né pinne né scaglie nelle acque vi sarà in abominio.
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