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12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Leviticus 11:12

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Matthew Henry

(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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