Cud

How Nave’s arranged it

• Chewing of, was one of the facts by which ceremonially clean and unclean animals were distinguishedLeviticus 11:3–8Deuteronomy 14:3–8

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 11:3–8

   You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:3–82 voices

   “But the animals that may be eaten are those which "part the hoof as well as chew the cud," and this is another means of freeing the flesh of the animal from noxious substances.

   “That by bridling their appetite in things in themselves lawful, and some of them very desirable, they might be better prepared and enabled to deny themselves in things simply and grossly sinful.

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2. Deuteronomy 14:3–8

   You must not eat any detestable thing.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:3–82 voices

   “Among the Jews, frugality was made a matter of precept by a very wise dispensation of the law. The Educator forbade them the use of innumerable things. He explained the reasons, the spiritual ones hidden, the material ones obvious, but all of which they trusted. Some animals [were forbidden] because they were [not] cloven-footed; others, because they did not ruminate their food; a third class, because they, alone among all the fish of the seas, had no scales; until finally there were only a few things left fit for food.

   “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.

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