These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep , and the goat,
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Gill's Exposition
The hart, the roebuck, and the fallow deer,.... All of the deer kind, and very agreeable food; harts were very common in the land of Canaan and parts adjacent; Aelianus says (u) harts are bred in the…
Compare Lev. 11. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deu 14:5 The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the…
Moses here tells the people of Israel,
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in…
Cambridge Bible
These are the beasts which ye shall eat Lev 11:2-23 has no list of clean beasts such as here follows.
ox, sheep, goat For the sacramental nature of the slaying and eating of domestic animals see on…