31These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
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And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. …
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-42)Here is the law, 1. Concerning flying insects, as flies, wasps, bees, etc.; these they might not eat (Lev. 11:20), nor indeed are they fit to be eaten; but there were several sorts of locusts which in those countries were very good meat, and much used: John Baptist lived upon them in the desert, and they are here allowed them, Lev. 11:21 , 22 . 2. Concerning the creeping things on the earth; these…
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