Leviticus 11:2 BSB — MannaFest

Leviticus 11:2

“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:

BSB

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ASV

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,.... For to them only belong the following laws, and not unto the Gentiles, as Jarchi rightly observes; these were parts of the ceremonial law, which was peculiarly given to them, and lay, among other things, in meats and drinks, and now abolished; for it is not what goes into a man that defiles him; nor is anything common or unclean of itself, but every creature of God is good if received with thanksgiving.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

These are the beasts - Though every creature of God be good and pure in itself, yet it pleased God to make a difference between clean and unclean, which he did in part before the flood, Gen. vii, 2, but more fully here for many reasons; as, 1.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Rather, “These are the animals which ye may eat out of all the beasts;” that is, out of the larger creatures, the quadrupeds, as distinguished from birds and reptiles. See Gen 1:24. Of quadrupeds, those only might be eaten which completely divided the hoof and chew the cud Lev 11:3-8.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 499: “The Clean and the Unclean” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1863)

THE MOSAIC LAW ATTACHED great importance to meats and drinks: the Christian religion attaches none. The apostle Peter was shown by the vision of a sheet let down from heaven, not only that all nations were now to receive the gospel message, but that all kinds of food were now clean, and that all the prohibitions which had formerly been laid upon them for legal purposes were now once for all withdrawn. A Christian may, if he pleases, put himself under restrictions as to these matters.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
דַּבְּר֛וּ	da.be.Ru	speak	H1696 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
זֹ֤את	zot	this	H2063 →
הַֽחַיָּה֙	ha.chai.Yah	[is] the living creature	H2416 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
תֹּאכְל֔וּ	to.khe.Lu	you will eat	H398 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	from every	H3605 →
הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה	ha.be.he.Mah	<the> animal	H929 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H929habehemah<the> animal190×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 15:11
A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
leads to
- Mark 7:15
  Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
- Matthew 15:18–20
  But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
- James 3:5–8
  In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- Matthew 12:34–37
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- 1 Timothy 4:4–5
  For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
Through
Hebrews 9:10
They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
leads to
- Colossians 2:16
  Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
- Ephesians 2:15
  by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
- Hebrews 7:16
  one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Leviticus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus