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These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,
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The Purpose of Purity Laws
Commentator Matthew Henry suggests these laws served multiple purposes: to test Israel's obedience, to keep them distinct from surrounding pagan nations who ate or worshipped these animals, and to teach them to distinguish between holy and unholy in all areas of life, including their relationships.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The identification of "the creeping things" here named is not always certain. They are most likely those which were occasionally eaten. For "the To…
19th Century
Anglican
These also shall be unclean. — Better, And these shall be the most unclean. Since Leviticus 11:24-28 dealt with …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth…
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These laws seem to have been intended,
As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…
