John Gill Commentary Leviticus 11:8

"Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you." — Leviticus 11:8 (ASV)

Of their flesh shall you not eat
Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare:

and their carcass shall you not touch ;
which must not be understood of touching them in any sense; for then it would have been unlawful for a Jew to have rode upon a camel, or to take out and make use of hog's lard in medicine; but of touching them in order to kill them, and prepare them for food, and eat them; and indeed all unnecessary touching of them is forbidden, lest it should bring them to the eating of them; though perhaps it may chiefly respect the touching of them dead:

they [are] unclean to you :
one and all of them; for as this was said of each of them in particular, so now of all of them together; and which holds good of all wild creatures not named, to whom the description above belongs, and which used to be eaten by other nations; some of which were called Pamphagi, from eating all sorts, and others Agriophagi, from eating wild creatures, as lions, panthers, elephants

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: Plin. l. 6. c. 30. Solinus, c. 43.