d: and to me what thou seest has
happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies,
having a sorrowful heart?

10:20. Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.

Leviticus Chapter 11

The distinction of clean and unclean animals.

11:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

11:2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are
to eat of all the living things of the earth.

Animals which you are to eat, etc... The prohibition of so many kinds of
beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law, was ordered, 1st, to exercise the
people in obedience, and temperance; 2ndly, to restrain them from the
vices of which these animals were symbols; 3rdly, because the things
here forbidden were for the most part unwholesome, and not proper to be
eaten; 4thly, that the people of God, by being obliged to abstain from
things corporally unclean, might be trained up to seek a spiritual
cleanness.

11:3. Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the
beasts, you shall eat.

Hoof divided, and cheweth the cud... The dividing of the hoof and
chewing of the cud, signify discretion between good and evil, and
meditating on the law of God; and where either of these is wanting a man
is unclean. In like manner fishes were reputed unclean that had not fins
and scales: that is, souls that did not raise themselves up by prayer
and cover themselves with the scales of virtue.

11:4. But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but
divideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but
shall reckon it among the unclean.

11:5. The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof,
is unclean.

The cherogrillus... Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the
hedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common
in Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We
choose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that follow
(which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the Greek or
Latin names.

11:6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
hoof.

11:7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the
cud.

11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their
carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

11:9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is
lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well