Leviticus 11:43 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴³Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Leviticus 11:43 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Leviticus 11:41-42
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. …

Topics

Ablution Creeping Things Defilement Eating Food Hygiene Meal Offerings

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 43-47)

Here is, I. The exposition of this law, or a key to let us into the meaning of it. It was not intended merely for a bill of fare, or as the directions of a physician about their diet, but God would hereby teach them to sanctify themselves and to be holy, Lev. 11:44. That is, 1. They must hereby learn to put a difference between good and evil, and to reckon that it could not be all alike what they…