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As far as they can be identified, the birds here mentioned are such as live upon animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been...
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 sca...
11 - 15. Ritual Cleanliness and Uncleanliness. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted g...
swan, not our swan: it is variously rendered "ibis", "bat", "heron", and "pelican". pelican: or vomiting pelican. gier eagle: or little vultu...
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, The swan - תנשמת tinshemeth. The Septuagint translate the word by πορφυριωνα, the porphyrion, purp...
And the swan— It is very difficult to determine the true meaning of the word תנשׁמת tinshamet, here rendered swan, as in the 30th verse it is a...
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossif...
(Leviticus 11-16) The Law of Clean and Unclean This section deals with the subject of ceremonial uncleanness and the method of its purification. F...
Vulture] RV 'kite.' Kite] RV 'falcon.' After his kind ] i.e. including others of the same species. Owl] RV 'ostrich.' Cuckow] RV 'seamew.'...
And the swan. — The word here translated “swan,” which, besides the parallel list in Deut., also occurs in Leviticus 11:30 , among the names of th...
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...
41-47, the Distinction between Clean and Unclean Leviticus 11:1-23 There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Is...
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 i...
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...
And the swan ,.... This is a bird well known to us, but it is a question whether it is intended by the word here used; for though it is so rendered...
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, Ver. 18. And the swan. ] Whose white feathers, but black skin under them, might serve to set fo...
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, “...
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 sha...
Food: Permitted and Prohibited SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 11:2 .—These are the beasts which ye shall eat. [For scientific and sanitary inform...
Leviticus 11:2 . The beasts which ye shall eat. The Talmud calls this chapter the Thirteenth class of Prohibitions. From the beginning of the worl...
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...
PART III UNCLEANNESS , CEREMONIAL AND MORAL : ITS REMOVAL OR ITS PUNISHMENT SECTION I EXPOSITION THE two preceding par...
Of Animals of the Air
and the swan, probably an owl with a dismal cry, and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, or carrion vulture,
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,