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Leviticus 11:43

Leviticus 11:43
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth,.... With any creeping thing that flies in the air, excepting the four sorts of locusts, Lev 11:22 and with any creeping…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 11:43-47

Here is, I. The exposition of this law, or a key to let us into the meaning of it. It was not intended merely for a bill of fare, or as the directions of a physician about their diet, but God would…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Leviticus 11:41-44

This would come appropriately as a conclusion to the rules about eating, after Lev 11:11. Cp. Eze 8:10 f.

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