To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
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Gill's Exposition
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean,.... Whether of beasts, fish, fowl, and flying creeping things:
and between the beast that may be eaten, and the beast that may not be eaten;…
These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Lev 10:10; Lev 20:25-26; 1Pe 1:15-16. The basis of the…
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…
Summary. It refers only to the rules about eating, and so makes no reference to Lev 11:24-30. See App. I (c).
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