Leviticus 11:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. ”

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

  First Prohibition. Animals, etc., not allowed for food. The test is, Is it cloven-footed, and does it chew the cud? For fishes, Has it fins and scales? No test of this nature can be given for birds...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: No...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (Leviticus 11-16) The Law of Clean and Unclean This section deals with the subject of ceremonial uncleanness and the method of its purification. Four main types of uncleanness are referred to, viz...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES Leviticus 11:1-47 WITH chapter 11 begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chapter 15, of which the subject is the law...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  41-47, the Distinction between Clean and Unclean Leviticus 11:1-23 There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Israel's dietary. Devout medical men insist that thi...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now reach the section dealing with the laws of separation. The first movement records the laws concerning health. It is impossible to enter here into any detailed dealing with the particular laws...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law, concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, and the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object evi...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They shall be even an abomination to you ,.... This is repeated again and again, to deter from the eating of such fishes, lest there should be any desire after them: ye shall not eat of their fles...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Ver. 11. They shall be even an abomination. ] To teach us, that nothin...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ANIMALS ALLOWED OR DISALLOWED FOR FOOD (vv. 1-8) Never since the flood has man been commanded to be a vegetarian. After the flood Noah was told, “every moving thing that lives shall be food for yo...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.   10 And all that have not fins and sca...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  An abomination unto you, to wit, for food. This clause is added to show that they were neither abominable in their own nature, nor for the food of other nations; and consequently when the partition...

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

  Sea Life That May Or May Not Be Eaten ( Leviticus 11:9-12 ). Leviticus 11:9 “These may you eat of all that are in the waters. Whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in th...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Food: Permitted and Prohibited SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 11:2 .—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary information respecting the animals, reptiles, birds, and...

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

  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 unclea...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  These are the beasts which ye shall eat. The clean and the unclean The Mosaic Law attached great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The Apostle Peter was show...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART III UNCLEANNESS , CEREMONIAL AND MORAL : ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding parts having made manifest the way of approach to God...

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• Leviticus 11:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of Animals Living In Water

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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• Leviticus 11:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Unto you — This clause is added to shew that they were neither abominable in their own nature, nor for the food of other nations; and consequently when the partition — wall between Jews and Gentile...

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