10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? …
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-19)Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev. 11:9 , 10 . The ancients accounted fish the most delicate food (so far were they from allowing it on fasting-days, or making it an instance of mortification to eat fish); therefore God did not lay muc…
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