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Leviticus 11:8
8Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses — they are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
- New International Version (NIV)You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.
Context of Leviticus 11:8
6hares, though they chew the cud, do not have hooves — they are unclean for you; 7pigs, though they have divided hooves, do not chew the cud — they are unclean for you. Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses — they are unclean for you. 9“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams. 10But these are to be abhorrent to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.
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מִבְּשָׂרָם֙ לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֔לוּ וּבְנִבְלָתָ֖ם לֹ֣א תִגָּ֑עוּ טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖ם לָכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 11:8
- Leviticus 5:2Or if someone touches anything unclean — a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature — without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.
- Isaiah 52:11Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean; go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
- Hosea 9:3They will not stay in the land of the Lord. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Matthew 15:11It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth — this defiles a person.”
- Mark 7:2They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean — that is, unwashed — hands.
- Acts 10:10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.
- Acts 10:28Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.
- Acts 15:29that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.”
- Romans 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8Food will not bring us close to God. We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.
- Ephesians 5:7Therefore, do not become their partners.
- Colossians 2:16Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
- Colossians 2:21“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?
- Hebrews 9:10They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of the new order.
Commentaries on Leviticus 11:8
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-8Some scholars think people avoided ceremonially unclean animals for health reasons. But evidence does not support this suggestion. Horse meat, for instance, is as healthy as beef, yet it was "unclean" because the horse does not have a split hoof (see Leviticus 11:2–3). These rules existed because an unclean animal was not suitable as an offering to God. So, it was likewise not suitable as food for God's people. Jesus proclaimed all foods clean for…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-471-2. the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron--These laws, being addressed to both the civil and ecclesiastical rulers in Israel, may serve to indicate the twofold view that is to be taken of them. Undoubtedly the first and strongest reason for instituting a distinction among meats was to discourage the Israelites from spreading into other countries, and from general intercourse with the world--to prevent them acquiring familiarity with the inhabitants of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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