And if any beast. —That is, a clean animal, which is both cloven-hoofed and ruminant, but which has not been properly slaughtered, having …

And if any beast of which you may eat die
Any clean beast, as the ox, sheep, goat, deer what, if rightly killed, is …

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…