Leviticus 11:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. ”

Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But all other flying creeping things. — Better, but all other winged creeping things. Besides the above-named four species and their kindreds, all other locusts, as well as insects of any kind, a...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But all [other] flying creeping things ,.... Excepting the four sorts before mentioned, wherefore we rightly supply the word "other": which have four feet ; or more; the Vulgate Latin version adds...
Leviticus 11:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you. Ver. 23. Which have four feet. ] See on Leviticus 11:21 .
Leviticus 11:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All other That is, which have not those legs above and beside their feet, mentioned Leviticus 11:21 . For these ye shall be unclean If they did either eat, or so much as touch the carcasses of t...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above...
Leviticus 11:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. All such except those now mentioned; the word other being here understood out of the former verse, without which there might seem to be a contradiction between this and that verse. But the wor...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - 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...
Leviticus 11:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of Animals of the Air
Leviticus 11:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 11:23
Leviticus 11:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

All other — That is, which have not those legs above and besides their feet mentioned, Leviticus 11:21 .

Leviticus 11:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 11:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 11:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 11:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 11:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 11:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 11:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 11:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 11:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes