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; leaping insects are clean, insects which only fly, unclean. The tests, especially the first, are clea... [ Continue Reading ]
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; Leviticus 14:33, Leprosy in houses, and general conclusion to the Law; Leviticus 15, Issues. Probably... [ Continue Reading ]
SECOND PROHIBITION. The dead bodies of unclean animals are not to be touched; scrupulous dread could hardly go further. The distinction is repeated from Leviticus 11:1, but a special list of unclean insects is given, corresponding to the list of clean insects in Leviticus 11:22. If the dead body, or... [ Continue Reading ]
BRIEF SUMMING UP OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE, in the manner of H. LEVITICUS 11:46 F. CONCLUSION OF THE SECTION.... [ Continue Reading ]