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Leviticus 11:46

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This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth;

KJV

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

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This verse in Leviticus 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This law was to them a statute for ever, that is, as long as that economy lasted; but under the gospel we find it expressly repealed by a voice from heaven to Peter ( Acts x. 15 ), as it had before been virtually set aside by the death of Christ, with the other ordinances that perished in the using: Touch not, taste not, handle not, Col. ii.

This site's exposition

This is the law of the beasts

on Leviticus 11:46-47

The closing line names the purpose as making a difference between the unclean and the clean, which puts the work of separation on the table at every meal. Why the lines fall where they do has been answered by health, which Maimonides argues in the Guide for the Perplexed around 1190, by separation from the practice of the surrounding nations, by symbolic wholeness in each creature keeping to its own element, and by the order of the creation account, and Leviticus argues none of them. Mark 7:19 closes an argument about what comes out of a man with the evangelist's own comment that he purged all meats. Acts 10:9-16 gives Peter a vision of these same creatures, and Peter says at 10:28 that God had shewed him he should call no man common or unclean.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

This is the law - It was so, as long the Mosaic dispensation lasted. But under the gospel we find it expressly repealed by a voice from heaven, Acts x, 15. Let us therefore bless God, that to us every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused.
This is the law of the beasts,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • זֹ֣אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • תּוֹרַ֤ת[is] [the] legal [procedure] of

    toratH8451 →219 times

  • הַבְּהֵמָה֙the livestock

    habehemahH929 →190 times

  • וְהָע֔וֹףand the bird[s]

    vehaofH5775 →71 times

  • וְכֹל֙and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • נֶ֣פֶשׁcreature

    nefeshH5315 →754 times

  • הַֽחַיָּ֔ה<the> living

    hachaiyahH2416 →498 times

  • הָרֹמֶ֖שֶׂתwhich moves

    haromesetH7430 →17 times

  • בַּמָּ֑יִםin the waters

    bamayimH4325 →581 times

  • וּלְכָל־and to every

    ulekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • נֶ֖פֶשׁcreature

    nefeshH5315 →754 times

  • הַשֹּׁרֶ֥צֶתwhich swarms

    hashoretzetH8317 →14 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃the earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,2 worksLeviticus 14:54This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,2 worksLeviticus 7:37This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,2 worksEzekiel 43:12This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.2 worksNumbers 36:13These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.2 worksNumbers 5:29This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 14:54

    This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 5:29

      This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Leviticus 14:32

      This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

  • Through

    Ezekiel 43:12

    This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 40:2

      In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.

    • Revelation 21:27

      But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

    • Ezekiel 42:20

      So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

    • Psalms 93:5

      Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.

    • Joel 3:17

      Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

  • Through

    Leviticus 7:37

    This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:1

      “Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 11 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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