Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 11:26
[The carcasses] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
The word carcasses is easily to be understood out of Lev 11:24,25, where it is expressed.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
26. every beast . . . notcloven-footedThe prohibited animals under this descriptioninclude not only the beasts which have a single hoof, as horses andasses, but those also which divided the foot into paws, as lions,tigers, &c.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[The carcasses] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not cloven footed,…. As the camel:
nor cheweth the cud; though it may divide the hoof, as the swine; and on the other hand, such as may chew the cud, and yet not dividing the hoof, as the coney and hare; for the Scripture here, as Aben Ezra observes again, uses a short and concise way of speaking: these
[are] unclean unto you; to be reckoned by them such, and neither to be eaten nor touched:
everyone that toucheth them shall be unclean; until the evening; and obliged to washing, though not expressed: this is not to be understood of touching them while alive, as some Sadducees or Karaites understand it, according to Aben Ezra; for camels, horses, mules, c. might be, and were rode upon, and so touched but of them when dead, or their carcases, as is rightly supplied in the beginning of the verse; and the Jewish writers c understand this of the flesh of the carcass only, not of the bones, horns, and hoofs, which, they say, do not defile, only the flesh: this is repeated from Le 11:8.
c Misn. Edaiot, c. 6. sect. 3. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(26) The carcases of every beast.The construction of this text constituted one of the differences between the Pharisees and the Sadducees during the second Temple. According to the Pharisees, or the National Church in the time of Christ, the phrase that toucheth them in the last part of this verse refers to the carcases of the unclean animals spoken of in the preceding verse. It was only when an unclean animal was dead, whether death was owing to natural causes, design, or accident, that contact with its body defiled (see Lev. 11:8; Lev. 11:31); but when alive, unclean animals were freely used. Hence camels, asses, horses, &c, were employed in daily life, though unclean (1Ch. 12:40; Zec. 14:15; Mat. 21:2; Luk. 13:15, &c.). The Authorised Version rightly expresses this sense by inserting the carcases in italics at the beginning of the verse, thus showing that them in the latter part of the verse refers to the bodies of unclean animals when dead. Indeed some MSS. have actually that toucheth their carcases, instead of that toucheth them. The Sadducees, however, took the expression them to refer to the living unclean animals, and hence maintained that touching the body of any animal described in this dietary list as unclean defiled. The difference which this interpretation of the text produced in the domestic life and social intercourse of the Jews can hardly be described, since, according to the doctrine of the Sadducees, it was exceedingly difficult to remain undefiled as soon as one of them stepped outside their dwellings.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
CONCERNING LARGER ANIMALS, Lev 11:26-28.
This section contains a prohibition of all quadrupeds not dividing the hoof and chewing the cud, together with the penalty for touching their carcasses. It is a summary of Lev 11:1-8, with the prohibition of whatsoever goeth upon his paws.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 11:26 [The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Ver. 26. Not cloven footed. ] See on Lev 11:5 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Deu 14:8 – touch Isa 52:11 – touch
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 11:26. The carcasses of every beast, &c., are unclean They were prohibited from touching their dead bodies, but not their bodies when alive: for they used camels, horses, asses, &c., for necessary service, Lev 11:31.