Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 11:39

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Lastly, contact with edible animals, if they had not been slaughtered, but had died a natural death, and had become carrion in consequence, is also said to defile (cf. Lev 11:39, Lev 11:40 with Lev 11:24-28). This was the case, too, with the eating of the swarming land animals, whether they went upon the belly, (Note: The large ו in גּחון ( Lev 11:42) shows that this vav is the middle letter of the Pentateuch.) as snakes and worms, or upon four feet, as rats, mice, weasels, etc., or upon many feet, like the insects ( Lev 11:41-43). Lastly ( Lev 11:44, Lev 11:45), the whole law is enforced by an appeal to the calling of the Israelites, as a holy nation, to be holy as Jehovah their God, who had brought them out of Egypt to be a God to them, was holy ( Exo 6:7; Exo 29:45-46). Leviticus 11:46

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