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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Leviticus 11:27

Quod ambulat super manus ex cunctis animantibus, quæ incedunt quadrupedia, immundum erit : qui tetigerit morticina eorum, polluetur usque ad vesperum.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Food;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Evening, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Preparation ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Paw;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quod ambulat super manus ex cunctis animantibus, quæ incedunt quadrupedia, immundum erit: qui tetigerit morticina eorum, polluetur usque ad vesperum.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quod ambulat super plantas pedum ex cunctis animantibus, quae incedunt quadrupedia, immundum erit; qui tetigerit morticina eorum, polluetur usque ad vesperum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:20, Leviticus 11:23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:24 - General Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead Deuteronomy 14:8 - touch Judges 13:4 - eat not 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean Isaiah 52:11 - touch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whatsoever goeth upon his paws,.... Or "the palms" d of his hands; meaning such creatures, whose feet are not divided into two parts, but into many, like the fingers of an hand, as apes, lions, bears, wolves, foxes, dogs, cats, c.

among all manner of beasts that go on [all] four this is added, to distinguish them from fowl, such as are clean; who walk but on two feet, though their feet are divided into fingers or talons, and may be called hands on which they walk:

these [are] unclean unto you: and as they might not be eaten, so neither touched, as follows:

whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even;

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d על כפיו "super volas suas", Pagninus, Montanus, "super manus suas", Munster, Tigurine version, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unclean - If the due purification was omitted at the time, through negligence or forgetfulness, a sin-offering was required. See Leviticus 5:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 11:27. Whatsoever goeth upon his paws — כפיו cappaiv, his palms or hands, probably referring to those animals whose feet resemble the hands and feet of the human being, such as apes, monkeys, and all creatures of that genus; together with bears, frogs, &c.


 
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