- Bible
- Leviticus
- Chapter 11
- Verse 12
Leviticus 11:12
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
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Gill's Exposition
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters,.... Which is repeated that they might take particular notice of this law, and be careful to observe it, this being the only sign given:
that shall…
Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev…
Lev 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 Deu 14:3 ff. see App. I (c), pp. 162…