Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 11:8
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
8. their carcases ye shall not touch ] The word carcase is the same as that translated ‘that which dieth of itself’ (Lev 17:15; Deu 14:21). Here and in Deu 14:8 contact with the dead bodies of these unclean animals is prohibited.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ye shall not touch, to wit, in order to eating, as may be gathered by comparing this with Gen 3:3; Col 2:21. For since the fat and the skins of some of the forbidden creatures were useful for medicinal and other good uses, and were used by good men; see Mat 3:4; it is not probable that God would have them cast away. Thus God forbad the making of images, Exo 20, not absolutely and universally, but in order to the worshipping of them, as Christian interpreters agree. Or, they were here forbidden to touch them, to wit, unnecessarily; and if he that touched them for some necessary use were polluted by it, it was but a slight and transient pollution, ending at evening, as appears from Lev 11:24,25, &c.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Of their flesh shall ye not eat,…. Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare:
and their carcass shall ye not touch; which must not be understood of touching them in any sense; for then it would have been unlawful for a Jew to have rode upon a camel, or to take out and make use of hog’s lard in medicine; but of touching them in order to kill them, and prepare them for food, and eat them; and indeed all unnecessary touching of them is forbidden, lest it should bring them to the eating of them; though perhaps it may chiefly respect the touching of them dead:
they [are] unclean to you: one and all of them; for as this was said of each of them in particular, so now of all of them together; and which holds good of all wild creatures not named, to whom the description above belongs, and which used to be eaten by other nations; some of which were called Pamphagi, from eating all sorts, and others Agriophagi, from eating wild creatures, as lions, panthers, elephants l, &c.
l Plin. l. 6. c. 30. Solinus, c. 43.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) Of their flesh ye shall not eat.During the second Temple the prohibition was defined to extend to the smallest quantity. If any one ate a piece of flesh less even than the size of an olive he was chastised with stripes.
And their carcase shall ye not touch.As contact with a human dead body, which was regarded as the most defiling of all, was only forbidden to the priests (see Lev. 21:1-3), hence the prohibition here addressed to the whole nation was interpreted during the second Temple to apply simply to the occasions when the Israelites came to Jerusalem on the pilgrimage festivals. Contact with a carcase of an unclean animal on these visits precluded the worshipper from entering the sanctuary, from touching sacred things, and from partaking of the sacrificial meats.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
Ver. 8. Of their flesh shall ye not eat. ] Not above the quantity of an olive, say the Jew doctors, who will needs be mending magnificat, adding to the law.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
they are unclean: Lev 5:2, Isa 52:11, Hos 9:3, Mat 15:11, Mat 15:20, Mar 7:2, Mar 7:15, Mar 7:18, Act 10:10-15, Act 10:28, Act 15:29, Rom 14:14-17, Rom 14:21, 1Co 8:8, 2Co 6:17, Eph 5:7, Eph 5:11, Col 2:16, Col 2:21-23, Heb 9:10
Reciprocal: Lev 11:24 – General Lev 11:31 – General Mar 5:11 – herd
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 11:8. Ye shall not touch Not in order to eating. But the fat and skins of some of the forbidden creatures were useful, and might be used by them.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
11:8 Of their {c} flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
(c) God would that by this for a time they should be discerned as his people from the Gentiles.