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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clean, and that all the prohibitions which had formerly been laid upon them for legal purposes were now once for all withdrawn.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 11:31

Lev 11:31 These [are] unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even. Ver. 31. Touch them, when they be dead. ] There is no kind of living creature that is defiled while it is alive, or that defileth while it is alive, save man only, saith Maimony. Others note that there were more remarkable expressions of God’s anger upon man’s sin in the dead body of a man than of a beast. The one made unclean but till evening: the other... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 11:32

Lev 11:32 And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed. Ver. 32. It shall be unclean. ] With a ceremonial uncleanness only, and not moral: howbeit, the disobedience, even in such a small matter, brought a guilt upon the soul, which did defile,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 11:31

Leviticus 11:8, Leviticus 11:24, Leviticus 11:25 Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:2 - touch Leviticus 11:39 - General Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 11:32

it must be put into water: Leviticus 6:28, Leviticus 15:12, Titus 2:14, Titus 3:5 Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:27 - wash Leviticus 15:5 - General Numbers 19:15 - General Numbers 31:23 - ye shall make 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

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 11:32

32. Vessel… must be put into water This explains the baptism of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, (Mark 7:4,) and “divers washings” mentioned in Hebrews 9:10, as characteristic of the Jews. read more

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