3 Mosebok 11:10

Svenska Bibel

Men allt det i sjöar och strömmar, som icke har fenor och fjäll, bland allt det som rör sig i vattnet, bland alla levande varelser i vattnet, det skall vara en styggelse för eder.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they shall be: Leviticus 7:18, Deuteronomy 14:3, Psalms 139:21, Psalms 139:22, Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 29:27, Revelation 21:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Ezekiel 8:10 - every

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, and in the rivers,.... Such as eels, lampreys, c.

of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is] in the waters the former of these are interpreted by Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom of little fishes that have but a small body, and such as are created out of the waters; and the latter, of such as are produced of a male and female; or, as Maimonides r explains it, the one signifies the lesser creatures, such as worms and horse leeches; the other greater ones, sea beasts, as sea dogs, c.

they shall be an abomination to you not only unclean, and so unfit to eat, but to be had in abhorrence and detestation, as being exceeding disagreeable and unwholesome; and, as a learned man observes s, to these prohibited in general belong all those animals in lakes, rivers, or seas, which are of a slow motion, and which, because of the slow motion of their bodies, do not so well digest their food; and for that may be compared with four footed beasts that have but one belly, and so unwholesome as they.

r Hilchot Maacolot Asuret, l. 1. c. 2. sect. 12. s Scheuchzer. ut supra, (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2.) p. 287.