The identification of "the creeping things" here named is not always certain. They are most likely those which were occasionally eaten. For "the To…

These also shall be unclean. — Better, And these shall be the most unclean. Since Leviticus 11:24-28 dealt with …

These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth…

These laws seem to have been intended,

1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…