These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviti…

This is the law of the beasts. —This is a recapitulation of the different cla es of animals proscribed in the dietary laws. It will, howev…

This [is] the law of the beasts
Clean and unclean, what were to be eaten, and what not,

and of th…

These laws seem to have been intended,