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John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 11:26
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[The carcasses] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not cloven footed, etc.] As the camel: nor cheweth the cud; though it may divide the hoof, as the swine; and on the other hand, such as may chew the cud, and yet not dividing the hoof, as the coney and hare; for the Scripture here, as Aben Ezra observes again, uses a short and concise way of speaking: these [are] unclean unto you; to be reckoned by them such, and neither to be eaten nor touched: everyone that toucheth them shall be unclean; until the evening; and obliged to washing, though not expressed: this is not to be understood of touching them while alive, as some Sadducees or Karaites understand it, according to Aben Ezra; for camels, horses, mules, etc. might be, and were rode upon, and so touched; but of them when dead, or their carcases, as is rightly supplied in the beginning of the verse; and the Jewish writers f361 understand this of the flesh of the carcass only, not of the bones, horns, and hoofs, which, they say, do not defile, only the flesh: this is repeated from (<031108>Leviticus 11:8).
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