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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 11:13

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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11:13-19 The list of unclean birds includes birds of prey and scavengers, both of which come in contact with dead animals and blood. This renders them unclean and unfit. Bats (11:19) fly, but are not birds; they are therefore “abnormal” and ceremonially unclean.
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