Any fish from either salt water or fresh water could be eaten if it had both scales and fins, but no other creature that lives in the waters was pe…

These you shall eat. —Water animals, which, as we have seen, constitute the second division of the animal kingdom, now fo…

These shall you eat of all that are in the waters. Here, also, some who know little of religion plausibly contend that God is acting as a …

These shall you eat of all that [are] in the waters
In the waters of the sea, or in rivers, pools, and ponds; meanin…

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…