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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 11:41-43

No Creeping Thing Is To Be Eaten (Leviticus 11:41-43 ). Having seen examples of what cannot be eaten because of contact with what is unclean we now return to what cannot be eaten. The ban on creeping things is universal. To eat such things is not only not worthy of God, it is an abomination to Him. They grovel among the dirt outside man’s sphere. That is the sphere of the snake. Leviticus 11:41-42 “And every creeping thing which creeps on the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 11:1-47

11– 15. Ritual Cleanliness and Uncleanliness. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1-Jonah :, Purgation for skin diseases; Leviticus 14:33-Philemon :, “ Leprosy” in houses, and general conclusion to the Law; Leviticus 15, “ Issues.”Probably to most modern readers, this section is the least intelligible in the book. We must consider it ( a) in its ethnological and ( b) its specifically Hebrew aspect, ( a) ... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 11:43-45

Leviticus 11:43-Romans : . Brief Summing up of the general Principle, in the manner of H. Leviticus 11:46 f. Conclusion of the section. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 11:1-47

Food: Permitted and ProhibitedSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 11:2.—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary information respecting the animals, reptiles, birds, and fishes specified, valuable information will be found in Whitlaw’s Code of Health; also in Calmet; and a useful summary in the Critical and Explanatory Commentary on this chapter]How noteworthy the fact that the glorious Jehovah should extend his oversight of Israel to such minute dietic and sanitary... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 11:1-47

Shall we turn in our Bibles to Leviticus eleven?Before we begin in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, let's take a look at the first few verses of chapter twenty-eight of Deuteronomy, because sometimes we're prone to get bogged down in the law, and we think, "Oh my, I wish we could just pass over this." Is this really necessary? Aren't we under the grace of God and living in the age of grace? But in reality it is important that God is, that we realize that God is laying down for us certain... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 11:1-47

Leviticus 11:2. The beasts which ye shall eat. The Talmud calls this chapter the Thirteenth class of Prohibitions. From the beginning of the world there was a distinction between clean and unclean beasts, as was intimated to Noah, when he received into the ark seven of the clean for one of the unclean. The reasons for this distinction are in the first place such as regard health. Cattle which feed on grass and chew the cud, are allowed to be the most salubrious for food. Dr. Buchan says... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 11:2-47

Leviticus 11:2-47These are the beasts which ye shall eat.The clean and the uncleanThe Mosaic Law attached great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The Apostle Peter was shown, by the vision of a sheet let down from heaven, not only that all nations were now to receive the gospel message, but that all kinds of food were now clean, and that all the prohibitions which had formerly been laid upon them for legal purposes were now once for all withdrawn. A Christian... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 11:43

Lev 11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. Ver. 43. Ye shall not make yourselves. ] Heb., Your souls. See on Leviticus 11:32 . read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 11:43

Ye shall: Leviticus 11:41, Leviticus 11:42, Leviticus 20:25 yourselves: Heb. your souls Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:5 - whosoever Deuteronomy 14:3 - General read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 11:29-47

CONCERNING CREEPERS, Leviticus 11:29-47. This section includes not only reptiles, but some of the small mammals. Reptiles are not mentioned as a collective group in the Bible, but are divided into the moving creatures of the sea, (classed with the fishes, Genesis 1:20,) and the creeping things of the land mentioned with mammalian quadrupeds, but distinct from them. read more

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