Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Leviticus 11:23
But all other flying, creeping things which have four feet, that walk, not in an upright, but in a horizontal position, "on all fours," shall be an abomination unto you.
But all other flying, creeping things which have four feet, that walk, not in an upright, but in a horizontal position, "on all fours," shall be an abomination unto you.
III. HOLINESS DEMANDED 1. The Clean and the Unclean CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Concerning the beasts on the earth (Leviticus 11:1)_ 2. Concerning things in the water (Leviticus 11:9) 3. Concerning flying an...
11- 15. RITUAL CLEANLINESS AND UNCLEANLINESS. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1, Purgation for skin diseases; L...
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; l...
Leviticus 11:1-23 [51]. The Distinction between Clean and Unclean Food [51] For the sources from which this ch. comes, and its relation from a critical point of view to Deuteronomy 14:3 ff. see App....
Four kinds of these swarming things which may be eaten are mentioned. The first and last of these occur frequently in the O.T., the second and third only here. The first is _"arbeh_, the general term...
The connexion between these _vv._and Leviticus 11:41 is very close, and Leviticus 11:24 are generally regarded as supplementary. See pp. 162 f....
(4) INSECTS 11:20-23 TEXT 11:20-23 20 All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, w...
_BUT ALL OTHER FLYING CREEPING THINGS, WHICH HAVE FOUR FEET, SHALL BE AN ABOMINATION UNTO YOU._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
11:23 crawling (d-4) Or 'swarming,' 'swarm.' so elsewhere....
FOWLS THAT CREEP] Read with RV, 'All winged creeping things.' What are meant are insects and small reptiles that move horizontally, GO UPON _all_ FOUR. Four kinds of locusts are exempted and may be ea...
(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. th...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
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, are...
וְ כֹל֙ שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָ עֹ֔וף אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֖ו
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES Leviticus 11:1 WITH chapter 11 begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chapter 15, of which the subject is the law concern...
41-47, THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN Leviticus 11:1 There were good and sufficient reasons for excluding certain animals from Israel's dietary. Devout medical men insist that this is the...
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 c...
_Only. Equal in length, ver. 20-21. (Menochius)_...
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 evid...
The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Priesthood being established, there comes the discernment between holy things and profane, and the judgment of defilements (chaps. 11-15), and wha...
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, "on...
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 ....
_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 them...
1 What beasts may, 4 and what may not bee eaten. 9 What fishes. 13 What foules. 29 The creeping things which are vncleane. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying vnto them, 2 Speak...
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 you” ...
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 word...
The Book of Leviticus may be termed "the priest's guide book." This is very much its character. It is full of principles for the guidance of such as desire to live in the enjoyment of priestly nearnes...
Leviticus 11:23 flying H5775 insects H8318 four H702 feet H7272 abomination H8263...
CONTENTS: The proper food for God's people defined. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The body is the Lord's and it is sin against God to prejudice health for the pleasing of appetite. KEY WORD:...
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 unclean b...
_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 shown, b...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 11:1 The Laws on Cleanness and Uncleanness. Chapter 11 deals with foods that are clean and may be eaten, and foods that are unclean and may not be eaten. Chapter...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 11:20 If the WINGED INSECTS have an ability to leave the ground, they are clean. For the LOCUST and GRASSHOPPER as allowable food, compare the die
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 fishe...
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 by means of sacrifice and the a...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Leviticus eleven? Before we begin in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, let's take a look at the first few verses of chapter twenty-eight of Deuteronomy, because sometim...
Leviticus 11:23...
All other — That is, which have not those legs above and besides their feet mentioned, Leviticus 11:21....