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Leviticus 20:25

Leviticus 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean,.... The ten clean ones, as Aben Ezra observes, and all the rest that are unclean, according to the law before given, Lev 11:3, by…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Leviticus 20:22-26

The ground is here again stated on which all these laws of holiness should be obeyed. See Lev 18:24-30 note. Lev 20:24 Compare the margin reference. Lev 20:25, Lev 20:26 The distinction between clean…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Between clean beasts and unclean - See the notes on Leviticus 11 (note).

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 20:22-27

The last verse is a particular law, which comes in after the general conclusion, as if omitted in its proper place: it is for the putting of those to death that dealt with familiar spirits, Lev 20:27.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The injunction that careful discrimination must be employed in the matter of clean and unclean food must, as Wellh. (Composition d. Hex. etc., p. 158, Berlin, 1889) and others point out, in its…

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