Exodus 22:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The sanctification of the nation was emphatically symbolized by strictness of diet as regards both the kind of animal, and the mode of slaughtering. See Leviticus 11; Leviticus 17.

Exodus 22:31

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.