Leviticus 11:27

_AND WHATSOEVER GOETH UPON HIS PAWS, AMONG ALL MANNER OF BEASTS THAT GO ON ALL FOUR, THOSE ARE UNCLEAN UNTO YOU: WHOSO TOUCHETH THEIR CARCASE SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN._ Whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even. The continued enjoyment of their national privileges by the Israelites was contingent upon their adherence to the prescriptions of the law. Ceremonial defilement entailed, to a certain extent, the less of those privileges; but when the impurity had been removed, the individual was restored, on condition of intimating his restoration by submitting to the rite of an entire ablution. Defilement might be contracted in various ways. Even an involuntary or accidental contact with the carcass of an unclean animal necessitated ecclesiastical exclusion for a time; and in the expiry of that specified term evidence had to be produced that the pollution was removed...

Verse Leviticus 11:27. _WHATSOEVER GOETH UPON HIS PAWS_] כפיו _cappaiv_, his _palms_ or _hands_, probably referring to those animals whose feet resemble the hands and feet of the human being, such as _apes_, _monkeys_, and all creatures of that genus; together with _bears_, _frogs_, c....

UNCLEAN - If the due purification was omitted at the time, through negligence or forgetfulness, a sin-offering was required. See Leviticus 5:2....

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 appointed priesthood of mediation, there follows a part having for its subject that which keeps man apart from God, namely, uncleanness, whether ceremonial uncleanness, which may be removed by ceremonial observances, or moral uncleanness, that is, unrighteousness, which, so far as it is a ceremonial offense, may be also dealt with ceremonially, but in respect to its moral character demands punishment. This part consists of four sections. The _first _section, comprising chapters 11-15, treats of ceremonial uncleanness, caused...

WHATSOEVER GOETH UPON HIS PAWS,.... Or "the palms" d of his hands; meaning such creatures, whose feet are not divided into two parts, but into many, like the fingers of an hand, as apes, lions, bears, wolves, foxes, dogs, cats, c. AMONG ALL MANNER OF BEASTS THAT GO ON [ALL] FOUR this is added, to distinguish them from fowl, such as are clean; who walk but on two feet, though their feet are divided into fingers or talons, and may be called hands on which they walk: THESE [ARE] UNCLEAN UNTO YOU: and as they might not be eaten, so neither touched, as follows: WHOSO TOUCHETH THEIR CARCASS SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN; Leviticus 11:24. d על כפיו "super volas suas", Pagninus, Montanus, "super manus suas", Munster, Tigurine version, Drusius....

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 and creeping things (Leviticus 11:13) 4. Concerning defilement with dead bodies (Leviticus 11:24) The Chapter s which form the third section of Leviticus are by some taken to give evidence that not Moses, but another person arranged the material of the book. Even men who do not deny the inspiration of the book claim that the hand of a redactor is here discovered. In their opi

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 to most modern readers, this section is the least intelligible in the book. We must consider it (_a)_ in its ethnological and (_b)_ its specifically Hebrew aspect, (_a)_ These laws are properly taboos. The term is Polynesian, signifying what is in itself, or artificially, forbidden, either for the whole community, or else for common people, or priests, or kings (p. 629). Taboos may relate to places, or to the sexes, or to certain ages. Certain kinds of food m

BEASTS. living creatures. See note on Leviticus 11:2....

Uncleanness caused by Dead Bodies (See introductory note on Leviticus 11:20.) Leviticus 11:24 are a general introduction. -And by these" (Leviticus 11:24) refers to what follows, not to the -winged creeping things" of Leviticus 11:23. (_a_) touching or bearing the carcase of (α) beasts specified in Leviticus 11:26 or (β) swarming things specified in Leviticus 11:29 caused uncleanness till the even; if they were carried, t

WHATSOEVER GOETH UPON HIS PAWS— In the Hebrew, _whatsoever goeth upon his hands;_ by which is meant _feet_ in some measure resembling _hands,_ so far at least as being divided into distinct parts; such as are those of apes, bears, lions, dogs, cats, &c....