Having completed the order of
the offerings and sacrifices upon the altar, the Lord gave Moses and unto Aaron
further instructions for the children of Israel with regard to the animals they
should and should not eat on the basis that some animals were regarded by Him
as unclean as human food.
Interestingly, we note that Aaron was now a fully ordained
and consecrated priest; but Moses was still God’s chief spokesman; so God
continued to speak through Moses.
God said, these are the beasts that ye shall eat among all
the beasts that are upon the earth: whatever parts the hoof and is cloven
footed, and chews the cud, with the exception of the camel, because it chews
the cud but divides not the hoof; it is unclean as food; also the rock badger,
the coney, the hare, an animal that has not been around in modern times, it
chewed the cud, but divided not the hoof; and the swine, the pig, for although
it is cloven footed it does not chew the cud. All these latter are unclean for
food.
It was God’s stipulation that these animals were not to be
eaten; the command was not even to touch their flesh; for they were unclean.
Of the fishes in the waters, whatsoever of the rivers and
seas that have fins and scales, ye may eat; but anything out of the rivers and
seas that does not have fins and scales, shall not be eaten; they are unclean
and an abomination unto you. More
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