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Leviticus 11 is dealing with the subject of cleanness and uncleanness, specifically, with the subject of clean and unclean foods. The word "clean"has a lot of different meanings today depending upon the place setting in which it is used. For one thing, the expression clean and its counterpoint unclean is one of the prominent themes of Leviticus. Unclean and its cognates occurs 132 times in the Old Testament over half of these ar in Leviticus. So the sense of uncleanness is a predominate theme, and the word clean, along with its related terms, occurs 74 times in Leviticus, which is over terzetto of the uses found in the Old Testament.       When we come to chapter 11, it is stated that cleanness and uncleanness has to do principally with food. It deals secondarily with cleanness or uncleanness that is the result of contact with a deathly animal, but it seems the reason the dead animal is called unclean is because we couldnt eat it. Even a clean animal , a bull or a sheep, could not be eaten if it were not killed in a sacrificially prescribed way. So it has to do with food or that which is touched when dead.we find first the land creatures, the animals that roam about through and through the earth (vv. 1-8) then we find in verses 9-12 the water creatures, those that live under water or in the water, and finally we have the flying creatures.     First, there are the land animals. There are two basic stipulations which must be met bef...