The Lord said to Moses and Aaron. The clean and unclean animal regulations are addressed to both Moses and Aaron — the civil and priestly leaders together. The dietary laws that follow are not merely priestly regulations but community-wide obligations. The address to both leaders communicates that the distinction between clean and unclean animals belongs to the whole covenant community's life, not only to the sanctuary's rituals. Acts 10:14–15 records Peter's vision challenging these distinctions — the clean/unclean categories that Leviticus 11 establishes are the categories that the new covenant declares fulfilled in Christ.

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