Clean and Unclean Animals. The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Among all the animals which are on the earth, these are the animals which you may eat. Lev 11:1-2

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III. LAWS REGARDING CEREMONIAL PURITY, Leviticus 11-16

1. Clean and Unclean Beasts, Fishes and Fowls, Lev_11:1-47

16. What distinction was made between animals that could and others that could not be used for food? Why does this law not apply to us?

Leviticus 11:1-23

CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS

The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Among all the animals which are on the earth, these are the animals which you may eat. [Mar_7:15-19]

You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof [that is, a hoof split into two parts especially at its distal extremity] and chews the cud.

Nevertheless, you are not to eat these, among those which chew the cud or divide the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is [ceremonially] unclean to you.

And the shaphan, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

And the swine, because it divides the hoof and makes a split hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

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

‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, these you may eat;

but whatever does not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all the teeming life in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are [to be considered] detestable to you. [1Co_8:8-13]

They shall be hated things to you. You may not eat their meat; you shall detest their carcasses.

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.

‘These you shall detest among the birds; they are not to be eaten, for they are hated things: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

the kite, every kind of falcon,

every kind of raven,

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, every species of hawk,

the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl,

the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture,

the stork, all kinds of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

‘All winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you;

yet of all winged insects that walk on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet with which to leap on the ground.

Of these you may eat: the whole species of migratory locust, of bald locust, of cricket, and of grasshopper. [Mat_3:4]

But all other winged insects which are four footed are detestable to you.

Comments by
F.B.Meyer
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Leviticus 11:1-23

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN

There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Israel’s dietary. Devout medical men insist that this is the finest sanitary code in existence, and that many of the diseases of modern life would disappear if it were universally adopted. God made these distinctions matters of religion, that the well-being of His people might be doubly assured. These restrictions were also imposed to erect strong barriers between the chosen people and the heathen. So long as they obeyed, it was clearly impossible to participate in the heathen festivals, where many of these animals were partaken of.

We are not now bound by these enactments. Our Lord made all meats clean, Mar_7:19, R.V. Peter was bidden to kill and eat all manner of creeping things, and his protest was overborne by the assurance that God had cleansed all. See Act_10:11-16. Religion consists not in outward rites, but in the inward temper. See Heb_9:10. Note that touching was forbidden, because the least contact with evil hurts the soul.

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