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This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth;
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A Concluding Summary
Commentators note that this verse is a formal summary or "recapitulation" of the detailed dietary laws given throughout the chapter. It concisely lists the categories of creation—land animals, birds, water creatures, and creeping things—to which the laws of clean and unclean apply.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviti…
19th Century
Anglican
This is the law of the beasts. —This is a recapitulation of the different classes of animals proscribed in the dietary laws. It will, howe…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This [is] the law of the beasts Clean and unclean, what were to be eaten, and what not,
and of th…
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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…
