Leviticus 11:24-28 - Exposition

These verses contain an expansion of the warning contained in Leviticus 11:8 , to the effect that the touch of the dead bodies of the forbidden animals was defiling, as well as the consumption of their flesh. A further mark of an unclean animal is added in Leviticus 11:27 . Whatsoever goeth upon his paws ; that is, whatever has not hoofs, but goes stealthily, like beasts of prey of the eat kind. It includes also dogs.