Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Leviticus 11:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye (a) shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.
(a) Or, of which ye may eat.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye (a) shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.
(a) Or, of which ye may eat.
Rather, “These are the animals which ye may eat out of all the beasts;” that is, out of the larger creatures, the quadrupeds, as distinguished from birds and reptiles. See Genesis 1:24. Of quadrupeds,...
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...
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. THESE. Hebrew this. Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number), singular for plural. BEASTS. living creatures. BEASTS. animals. Hebrew. _behemah._ The Hebrew division of animal...
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....
THE LAWS OF PURIFICATION These laws suitably follow chs. 8 10 which record the consecration of the priests. As sacrifice was the principal element in that consecration, the laws of sacrifice (chs. 1...
THESE ARE THE BEASTS WHICH YE SHALL EAT— It is extraordinary, that any objections should have been raised against the Jewish law and its divine Author, from that careful distinction made in it between...
C. THE LAWS OF PURITY 11:1-15:30 1. LAWS OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN FOOD 11.1-47 a. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF DIET 11:1-23 (1) QUADRUPEDS 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, sayin...
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THESE ARE THE BEASTS WHICH YE SHALL EAT AMONG ALL THE BEASTS THAT ARE ON THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
(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...
THESE ARE THE BEASTS WHICH YE SHALL EAT AMONG ALL... — Better, _These are the animals which ye may eat of all_.... The dietary laws, which stand first in the general precepts about clean and unclean t...
דַּבְּר֛וּ אֶל ־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵ אמֹ֑ר...
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...
Animals which you are to eat, &c. The prohibition of so many kinds of beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law, was ordered, 1. to exercise the people in obedience and temperance; 2. to restrain them fro...
It is worthy of remark, that before the flood the flesh of animals was not allowed for food. Genesis 1:29. After the flood a permission was given to eat flesh. Genesis 9:3. Here the LORD draws a line...
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...
2._These are the beasts which ye shall eat. _The holy fathers, before the birth of Moses, knew what animals were unclean; of which fact Noah afforded a manifest proof, when, by God’s command, he took...
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...
SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING,.... For to them only belong the following laws, and not unto the Gentiles, as Jarchi rightly observes; these were parts of the ceremonial law, which was pecu...
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth. Ver. 2. _These are the beasts which ye shall eat._] These, and these...
_Speak unto the children of Israel_ From the laws concerning the priests, he now comes to those which belonged to all the people; and in this chapter treats of clean and unclean meats; in the 12th, 13...
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...
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. From the animals in general the Lord distinguishes the domestic animals a...
OF MAMMALS...
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” ...
Though every creature of God be good and pure in itself, as appears from GENESIS 1:31 MATTHEW 15:11 ROMANS 14:14; yet it pleased God to make a difference between clean and unclean, and to restrain the...
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 11:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) children H1121 Israel H3478 saying H559 (H8800) These H2063 animals H2416 eat...
THE ANIMALS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE EATEN (LEVITICUS 11:2). Leviticus 11:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the...
THESE ARE THE BEASTS The dietary regulations of the covenant people must be regarded primarily as sanitary. Israel, it must be remembered, was a nation living on the earth under a theocratic governme...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 4:4; Acts 10:12; Acts 10:14; Daniel 1:8; Deuteronomy 14:3;...
These are the beasts — Though every creature of God be good and pure in itself, yet it pleased God to make a difference between clean and unclean, which he did in part before the flood, Genesis 7:2, b...