Reference: Clean
Easton
The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Le 11-15; Nu 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Ge 7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Le 11 and De 14:1-21.
The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the fat tail of certain sheep (Ex 29:13,22; Le 3:4-9; 9:19; 17:10; 19:26).
The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in Le 20:24-26; Ac 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb 9:9-14.
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From all clean cattle thou shalt take to thee seven; seven male and female; and from cattle which are not clean, this two, male and female.
And take all the fat of the covering upon the bowels, and the lobes upon the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn upon the altar.
And take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat covering the bowels, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, and the right leg, for it is a ram of fulness.
And the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, which is upon the loins, and the lobe upon the liver, upon the kidneys, he shall take away. And Aaron's sons burnt it upon the altar, upon the burnt-offering which is upon the wood, which is upon the fire: a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. read more. And if from the sheep his offering for a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, a male or a female, blameless he shall bring it If he is bringing a lamb his offering, he brought it before Jehovah. And he placed his hand upon the head of his offering, and slaughtered it before the tent of appointment. And the sons of Aaron sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about And he brought from the sacrifice of peace a sacrifice to Jehovah: its fat of, the whole fat tail, with the back bone, shall he take it away; and the fat covering the bowels, and all the fat which is upon the bowels,
And the fat from the bullock, and from the ram, the fat tail and the covering, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver:
And a man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in the midst of you, who shall eat any blood; and I gave my face against the soul eating the blood, and I cut it off from the midst of its people.
Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic.
And I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to inherit it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I Jehovah your God, who separated you from the nations. And ye separated between clean cattle to unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and ye shall not make you souls abhorred by cattle or bird, and by any which shall creep upon the earth which I separated to you for unclean. read more. And, ye were holy to me: for I Jehovah am holy, and I will separate you from the nations to be to me.
Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead. For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth. read more. Thou shalt not eat any abomination. These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats, The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle. And an cattle cleaving the hoof and dividing the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it. But this ye shall not eat, from those bringing up rumination, or from those cleaving the hoof of the cleft: the camel and the hare, and the coney; for they bringing up rumination and cleaving not the hoofs; they are unclean to you. And the swine, because it cleaves the hoof, and not ruminating, it is unclean to you: from their flesh ye shall not eat, and upon their carcass ye shall not touch. This shall ye eat from all which is in the waters: all which to it are fins and scales, ye shall eat: And every thing which to it are not fins and scales, ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you. All clean birds ye shall eat And this which ye shall not eat from them: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea eagle, And the vulture, and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind, And every raven according to his kind, And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after his kind, The cormorant, and the ibis and the heron, And the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet, And the stork, and the sand-piper, according to her kind; the hoopoe and the bat And every creeping thing flying it is unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. Every clean flying thing ye shall eat Ye shall not eat any carcass: to the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to a foreigner: for thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
And the morrow, these travelling, and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour: And he was hungry, and would have eaten: and these making ready, a deep trance fell upon him, read more. And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth: In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven. And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat. And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean. And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common. And this was for thrice: and again was the vessel taken up into heaven.
And the apostles and brethren, those being in Judea, heard that the nations also received the word of God. And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision discussed with him, read more. Saying, That thou camest in to men having uncircumcision, and didst eat With them. And Peter having begun, set forth to them in order, saying, I was in the city Joppa, praying: and in a deep trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descending as a great linen napkin, let down from heaven by four beginnings; and it came even to me: Upon which having looked intently, I observed, and saw quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven. And I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, kill and eat. And I said, By no means, Lord: for anything common or unclean never came into my month. And a voice answered me of a second time from heaven, What God cleansed, profane not. And this was for thrice: and again all was drawn up into heaven.
Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving; Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment. read more. And Christ being present, a chief priest of good things about to be, by a greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is; not of this creation; Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance. For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?