These are unclean. —Better, these are the most unclean, as Leviticus 11:29. That is, the eight animals so listed are pre-…

These are unclean to you of all that creep
Unfit for food, and not to be touched, at least when dead, as in the next…

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…