“Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.”
You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground — those that I have set apart as unclean for you. The dietary distinctions of Leviticus 11 are revisited at the close of the penalty chapter: the distinction between clean and unclean animals is the material daily practice of the same distinction-making capacity that the sexual ethics and the holiness code require. The community that distinguishes clean from unclean in what it eats is the community being formed to distinguish holy from common in every dimension of its life.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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