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Leviticus 11:1-47

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: Eating, Leviticus 11:2.

Strong Verses: Leviticus 11:45.

Striking Facts: God's covenant people, Israel, by having a diet peculiar to themselves would be kept from familiar conversation with idolatrous neighbors. The laws, however, were probably primarily sanitary and necessary to the good of the people.

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