This [is] the law of the beasts,.... Clean and unclean, what were to be eaten, and what not,and of the fowl; Le 11:2 the unclean ones, which are particularly mentioned that they might be avoided, all others excepting them being allowed, Le 11:13:and of every living creature that moveth in the waters; all sorts of fish in the sea, rivers, ponds, and pools, such as have fins and scales, these were to be eaten, but, if they had neither, were forbidden, Le 11:9:and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth; eight of which are mentioned particularly, which, when dead, defiled by touching; and all others are forbidden to be eaten, Le 11:29 together with such creeping things that fly, excepting those that had legs above their feet to leap with, Le 11:20.
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Leviticus 11:46
Leviticus 11:46
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