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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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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 11:44–47
18th Century
Theologian
These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviti…
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 11:46
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On Leviticus 11:46
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 11:1–47
17th Century
Minister
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…