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These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever does touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
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Contact with Death, Not Life
Commentators stress a key detail: ritual uncleanness came from touching these creatures only after they were dead, not while they were alive. This highlights that the defilement was specifically associated with contact with a carcass, not the living animal itself.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
These are unclean. —Better, these are the most unclean, as Leviticus 11:29. That is, the eight animals so listed are pre-…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These are unclean to you of all that creep Unfit for food, and not to be touched, at least when dead, as in the next…
Presbyterian
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…
