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Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Moses in this chapter teaches them, I. To distinguish themselves from their neighbours by a singularity, 1. In their mourning, ver. 1, 2. 2. In their meat, ver. 3-21. II. To devote themselves unto God, and, in token of that, to give him his dues out of their estates, the yearly tithe, and that every third year, for the maintenance of their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God,.... Set apart by him from all other people, and devoted to his worship and service, and many of them were sanctified and made holy in a special and spiritual sense; and therefore should not conform to the customs of Gentiles, whether in their extravagant mourning for the dead, or in their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These are the beasts which they shall eat,.... That is, which they might lawfully eat of, which were allowed for their food; for they were not obliged to eat of them if they did not choose it: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; which were creatures used in sacrifice, and the only ones, yet nevertheless they might be used for food if chosen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The hart, the roebuck, and the fallow deer,.... All of the deer kind, and very agreeable food; harts were very common in the land of Canaan and parts adjacent; Aelianus says (u) harts are bred in the great mountains in Syria, Amanus, Lebanon, and Carmel: the roebuck, or "dorcas", from whence a good woman had her name, Acts 9:36 is spoken of by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 6-8. And every beast that parted the hoof,.... In this and the two following verses two general rules are given, by which it might be known what beasts were fit for food and what not; one is if they parted the hoof, and the other if they chewed the cud, such might be eaten; but such that only chewed the cud, but did not divide the hoof, as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:6]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 9,10. These ye shall eat of, all that are in the waters,.... The fishes there, even such as have fins and scales, but they that have not were not to be eaten: [See comments on Leviticus 11:9] [See comments on Leviticus 11:10] [See comments on Leviticus 11:11] [See comments on Leviticus 11:12].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:9]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of all clean birds ye shall eat. Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides (p) observes, that only...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 12-18. But these are they of which they shall not eat,.... Jarchi observes, that the unclean birds are particularly mentioned, to teach that the clean sort are more than the unclean, and therefore the particulars of the fewest are given: these are all the same names as in Leviticus 11:13, excepting one, "the glede", Deuteronomy 14:13 which is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Deuteronomy 14:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases; "all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;'' [See comments on Leviticus 11:20], [See comments on Leviticus 11:21].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is "every clean locust ye may eat;'' see Leviticus 11:22.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself,.... This law is repeated from Leviticus 17:15, [See comments on Leviticus 17:15]: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; not to the proselyte of righteousness, for he might not eat of it any more than an Israelite, and if he did, he was obliged to wash his...