
Leviticus 11–15: On Why You Can Step on Bugs and Eat Rock Badger Nuggets—And Still Go to Church (Bible Talk, Ep. 38)
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Why Do Some Animals Need to Chew the Cud and Be Cloven-Footed?
Moses is writing to people that probably when he said these things, it made perfect sense to them in their culture. And this is why we have to read the text closely and try to piece together what exactly is so when the Lord says or when Moses via the Lord says that land animals, for example, need to chew the cud and be cloven footed. So do you have any inkling as to why that fact would be on the list of the things that separates the clean from the unclean? I don't know. Just in terms of the structures to coward. It's a mystery. Twelve commentaries would give you thirteen different answers. Except the one guy who wrote
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