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Leviticus 11

Lev. 11:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, saying
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, These
zo'th (Hebrew #2063)
this (often used adverb)
KJV usage: hereby (-in, -with), it, likewise, the one (other, same), she, so (much), such (deed), that, therefore, these, this (thing), thus.
Pronounce: zothe'
Origin: irregular feminine of 2089
are the beasts
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
which ye shall eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
a among all the beasts
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
that are on the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Deut. 14:3• 3{i}Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.{/i} (Deut. 14:3)
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Ezek. 4:14• 14Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came abominable flesh into my mouth. (Ezek. 4:14)
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Dan. 1:8• 8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank; {i}and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself{/i}. (Dan. 1:8)
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Matt. 15:11• 11{i}Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.{/i} (Matt. 15:11)
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Rom. 14:14• 14I know and am persuaded in [the] Lord Jesus that nothing [is] unclean by itself; unless to him that reckoneth anything to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean. (Rom. 14:14)
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Heb. 9:10• 10only with meats and drinks and different washings, ordinances of flesh imposed until a season of rectification. (Heb. 9:10)
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Heb. 13:9• 9Be not carried away with divers and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace; not with meats, in which those that walked were not profited. (Heb. 13:9)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Deut. 14:3‑8• 3{i}Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.{/i}
 4{i}These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;{/i}
 5{i}the hart, and the gazelle, and the stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep.{/i}
 6{i}And every beast that hath cloven hoofs, and the feet quite split open into double hoofs, and which cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat.{/i}
 7{i}Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs —they shall be unclean unto you;{/i}
 8{i}and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, yet cheweth not the cud —it shall be unclean unto you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch.{/i} (Deut. 14:3‑8)
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Ezek. 4:14• 14Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came abominable flesh into my mouth. (Ezek. 4:14)
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Dan. 1:8• 8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank; {i}and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself{/i}. (Dan. 1:8)
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Matt. 15:11• 11{i}Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.{/i} (Matt. 15:11)
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Mark 7:15‑19• 15There is nothing from outside a man, entering into him, can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.
 16If anyone have ears to hear, let him hear.
 17{i}And{/i} when he entered indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
 18And he says unto them, Are ye also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,
 19because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? (Mark 7:15‑19)
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Acts 10:12,14• 12in which were all the quadrupeds and reptiles of the earth and [the] birds of the sky.
 14But Peter said, By no means, Lord; because never did I eat anything common and unclean. (Acts 10:12,14)
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Rom. 14:2‑3,14‑15• 2One person hath faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eateth herbs.
 3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.
 14I know and am persuaded in [the] Lord Jesus that nothing [is] unclean by itself; unless to him that reckoneth anything to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
 15For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou art no longer walking in love. Do not with thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died. (Rom. 14:2‑3,14‑15)
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1 Tim. 4:4‑6• 4Because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be rejected when received with thanksgiving,
 5for it is sanctified through God's word and intercession.
 6Setting these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and the good teaching which thou hast followed up. (1 Tim. 4:4‑6)
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Heb. 9:10• 10only with meats and drinks and different washings, ordinances of flesh imposed until a season of rectification. (Heb. 9:10)
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Heb. 13:9• 9Be not carried away with divers and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace; not with meats, in which those that walked were not profited. (Heb. 13:9)
Of the laws relative to clean and unclean beasts, which are recorded in this chapter and Deut. ch. 14 the following may be found a useful abstract.
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In regard to quadrupeds, all beasts that have their feet completely cloven, above as well as below, and at the same time chew the cud, are clean. Those which have neither, or indeed want one of these distinguishing marks, are unclean.
This is a systematic division of quadrupeds so excellent, as never yet, after all the improvements in natural history, to have become obsolete, but, on the contrary, to be still considered as useful by the greatest masters of the science.
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With regard to fishes, Moses has in like manner, made a very simple systematic distinction.
All that have scales and fins are clean; all others unclean.
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Of birds, he merely specifies certain sorts as forbidden, thereby permitting all others to be eaten.
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Insects, serpents, worms, etc., are prohibited; but with regard, however to those winged insects, which besides four walking legs, also have two longer springing legs, (Pedes saltatorii,) Moses makes an exception, and under the denomination of locusts, declares them clean in all four stages of their existence.
In Palestine, Arabia, and the adjoining countries, locusts are one of the most common articles of food, and people would be very ill of if they durst not eat them:
For, when a swarm of them desolates the fields, they prove in some measure themselves an antidote to the famine which they occasion.
They are not only eaten fresh, immediately on their appearance, but the people collect them, and know a method of preserving them for a long time for food, after they have dried them in an oven. --Niebuhr's Description of Arabia, pp. 170-175.
• In general, there was to be in their eating the discernment of what was clean. (“Leviticus 11-12” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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