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  What does Genesis 7:2 mean when it says “seven clean beasts.”
"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Clean animals were animals that God said the Israelites were not to eat.
Noah was to take a pair, a male and a female, of each kind of animal into the ark. But he was to take seven pairs of each of the clean animals and birds.
www.neverthirsty.org /pp/corner/read/r00300.html   (536 words)

  
 Problems with a Global Flood, 2nd edition
It defines clean animals essentially as ruminants, a suborder which includes about 69 recent genera, 192 recent species [Wilson and Reeder, 1993], and probably a comparable number of extinct genera and species.
Animals can't be expected to run laps and return to their cages without a lot of human supervision.
He asserts that the animals fossilized there range from the size of a small lizard to the size of a cow, with the average animal perhaps the size of a fox.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html   (9127 words)

  
 “Anti-Soul Food”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hooves protect clean animals from cuts and injury, which are gateways for germs, parasites and disease to enter the body.
By this we learn that Noah already knew which animals were clean and which were unclean, and that he knew that sacrifices to Yahweh must only be with clean animals and clean fowl.
Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
www.geocities.com /shenlan.geo/Clean-unclean-food.html   (8021 words)

  
 Booklet > What Does the Bible Teach About Clean and Unclean Meats > Clean and Unclean Meats: A Matter of Health?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The four chapters of Leviticus that follow the listing of clean and unclean meats deal with precautions after childbirth and the means to identify and eliminate the spread of communicable diseases.
Russell asks, "What is so good about 'clean' meats, and what is so bad about 'unclean' meats?" He explains that "the flesh of clean animals such as beef, and fish that have scales and fins, is ideal for the health of humans-just as we would expect from the hand of a loving Creator.
Russell notes that "the differences between clean and unclean animals appear to be related to their primary food source and to their digestive systems.
www.ucg.org /booklets/CU/matterofhealth.htm   (2273 words)

  
 Unclean animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The origins of practices in relation to "clean animals" and "unclean animals" are lost to prehistory but are maintained by several large religions.
The term clean animals in the Hebrew bible is a misnomer as the actual term refers to the 'purity' and 'impurity' of the animal, which itself is a reference to the status the animal has in terms of Kashrut and its eligibility for sacrifice.
Hence all pure or clean animals are allowed to be eaten [are Kosher] while the unclean or impure animals may not be eaten.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unclean_animals   (2633 words)

  
 How BIG was Noah's Ark? How many animals did Noah's Ark hold? - at BibleStudy.org
Another question that often arises is the question of how many clean and unclean animals would Noah have to take on board the ark. Many scoffers will say that Noah had to take 7 pair of clean animals and 7 pair of the birds (Gen. 7:2-3).
Since these were clean animals and clean birds that would be used for food later, it would be important to have extra breeding stock.
Since there is some doubt as to what is the average size of the animals that were brought into the ark, and this paper is a conservative analysis of the carrying capacity of the ark, we will use the larger sheep average.We will also base our calculation on four different occupancy estimates.
www.biblestudy.org /basicart/sizeark.html   (1772 words)

  
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Unclean animals are never mentioned as food anywhere in the New Testament--they are either mentioned as beasts of burden (Joh 12:15) or mentioned in a negative fashion (Matt 7:9-11; Luk 11:11-12; Rev 16:13; 18:2).
In the vision (Acts 10:12) it does not say that all the animals shown were unclean, it says there were all kinds of beast and birds (various beasts and most birds were clean--Lev 11, Deut 14).
Unclean animals are not food, clean animals are.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Pines/4655/unclnt.html   (1137 words)

  
 How did all the animals fit on Noah's Ark?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Clean animals: Bible commentators are evenly divided about whether the Hebrew means ‘seven’ or ‘seven pairs’ of each type of clean animal.
But the vast majority of animals are not clean, and were represented by only two specimens each.
Possibly they had sloped floors or slatted cages, where the manure could fall away from the animals and be flushed away (plenty of water around!) or destroyed by vermicomposting (composting by worms) which would also provide earthworms as a food source.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v19/i2/animals.asp   (2583 words)

  
 Clean Food Part 1
After the universal flood, Yahweh said in Genesis 9:2-4, "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon that which moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
The difference between clean and unclean animals which were given before the flood (Genesis 7:2-3), were later written down by Moses as a part of the Covenant.
Many people believe that Yahshua repealed the laws of clean foods or that after our Savior was impaled on the tree to die for the sins of the world, all animals, fishes, and creeping things were cleansed for human food.
yaim.org /Pages/Cleanfood1.html   (1811 words)

  
 CH512: Fitting animals aboard the Ark
However, he believed that the only clean animals would be thirteen domestic ruminants traditionally considered clean.
Under Woodmorappe's assumption, the extra clean animals would increase the load by 1.5 percent, or 3 percent if you include seven pairs of the animals.
According to the creation model, dinosaurs and other animals now extinct would have been alive at the time of the flood and therefore would be aboard the ark. The only extinct animals that Woodmorappe included in his calculations were the ones that were known at the time.
www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CH/CH512.html   (336 words)

  
 Leviticus 11 - Clean and Unclean Animals
Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud; that you may eat: The rule was simple.
If any animal which you may eat dies: Seemingly, these laws apply to the natural death of clean animals, not to their butchering for food or death for sacrifice.
This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten."
www.enduringword.com /commentaries/0311.htm   (2193 words)

  
 Book #4 web b4w10
The predominant characteristics of clean mammals are the following: They give birth to live offspring, suckle their young, breathe through lungs, have hair on the skin, have constant body temperature, and have a four-chambered heart.
Although there are many kinds of animals that live in water; the law of clean and unclean meats dictates that the only animals that are fit for human consumption that live exclusively in water are fish.
The predominant characteristics of clean fish are as follows: vertebrates that live in water and breath through gills, have both fins and scales, and reproduce either by laying eggs or giving birth to live offspring.
www.bibleresearch.org /lawbook4/b4w10.html   (4374 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - Clean and Unclean
Humans, and all other living creatures, began as vegetarians: "And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
"Clean" birds, animals and insects were generally those that were plant-eaters, while those "unclean" were meat or carrion eaters e.g.
Clean sea creatures were apparently those that were found in fresh-flowing water (e.g.
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/diet.htm   (358 words)

  
 Clean and Unclean meats: a Christian perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Some animals were defined by the Creator as suitable for sacrifice, and some were not.
From the Flood until Moses, then, the people of God are recorded as eating and sacrificing only the clean animals: of the 'flock' - sheep or goat - (Gen 4:4), or cattle (18:7f), or birds.
The digestive tracts of dogs and rats and pigs and oysters and crabs and vultures would have to be totally changed to properly process their flesh to be fit for human consumption.
www.abcog.org /food.htm   (3241 words)

  
 Unclean Meat
The SDA Church and some other denominations teaches that for a Christian to eat unclean animals they are breaking God’s law and are sinning and could lose their salvation.
Clean and unclean animals was about ceremonial uncleanliness and it was never about a health issue.
Yes, Jesus was teaching all foods were clean as well as eating with ceremonially unwashed hands did not make a person unclean.
www.truthorfables.com /Unclean_Meat.htm   (1848 words)

  
 Genesis 7:8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds
Genesis 7:8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground, (ASV)
Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth, (BBE)
bible.cc /genesis/7-8.htm   (264 words)

  
 Which Animals Are Clean
And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
www.commandmentsofyhwh.org /Law/cleananimal.htm   (454 words)

  
 Clean and Unclean Meats
Rather, the "clean" animals that were going to be acceptable as sacrificial animals to God were going to represent a holy, righteous Spirit Being...
This is not the creation of new categories for classifying animals; this is merely an elaboration of the classifications that were already extant when Noah had taken the animals into the ark almost 1000 years earlier.
God created some animals as "clean" because there are "clean" invisible spirit beings; and He created the rest of the animals as "unclean" because there are "unclean" spirit beings.
home.sprynet.com /~pabco/c_meats.htm   (2805 words)

  
 Did Jesus Declare All Foods Clean?
Noah was aware of a distinction God had made between clean and unclean animals, even before the flood (Gen. 7:2), long before the time of the Mosaic food laws of Leviticus chapter 11, which specifies animals that are unclean, an abomination, and are not to be eaten.
That the unclean animals were taken into the ark by twos, and the clean animals by sevens, shows that Noah ate no unclean animals after the flood, nor used them for sacrifices (Gen 8:20), because that would have meant automatic extinction for the unclean animals.
Jesus is making the point that all food (clean or unclean) passes through the body, including that defiled by unwashed hands, an that it is not retained such that it corrupts a man's heart, causing him to sin.
www.aloha.net /~mikesch/unclean-foods-jesus.htm   (2068 words)

  
 How to Answer the Most Popular Arguments Against Clean Foods
Yahweh told Noah that clean animals were to go aboard the ark by sevens, but he was to limit the unclean to only two, Genesis 7:2.
One school of thought explains that marine animals without fins and scales tend to be bottom feeders, consuming the effluent that sinks to the mud.
Thus, it is necessary to remove all blood from the flesh of Scripturally clean animals before eating and to avoid eating residual blood.
www.yrm.org /popularcf.htm   (3405 words)

  
 Are All Animals Good Food?
All Sunday School children have heard the story of Noah’s ark. You may know that both clean and unclean animals were taken into the ark. Together with his family, Noah was to take seven pairs of each clean animal and one pair of each unclean animal (Gen.
Noah was told to take a supply of all kinds of food to sustain himself, his family and all the animals during their time on board (Gen.
Clean animals “part the hoof…and chew the cud.” The scripture says that they are “cloven-footed.” Pigs are cloven-footed, but do not chew the cud.
www.thercg.org /articles/aaagf.html   (5310 words)

  
 Twig Walkingstick - Why do pigs lie in mud?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Since March 1 is National Pig Day, Bob and I want to honor the snouted critter by busting the No. 1 myth of pigs: pigs aren't dirty animals.
Anyone who's been told to "Clean up that pigsty of a room!" knows that most people think the word pigsty is used to describe a dirty place.
Pigs would much rather lounge in a clean pool of water, but that usually isn't an option.
www.ag.ohio-state.edu /~twig/animals/html/021896.html   (192 words)

  
 Clean and Unclean: Commandments for today!
Levi 11:3 (NKJV) `Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves [and] chewing the cud--that you may eat.
Yahweh marked the animals that we are not to eat.
Yahweh set apart which animals are clean and which animals are unclean in His word.
www.eliyah.com /clean.html   (2578 words)

  
 Clean and Unclean Meats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But the first reference that God made concerning clean and unclean animals was not in the law that God gave Moses on the mount, but was when God instructed Noah on their separation in Genesis.
So the distinction that God appointed was that the clean animals were to be used to "foreshadow" Christ in their sacrifice.
And that they were designated clean and unclean only to be a token or sign of their distinctiveness as a Covenant people set apart for the service of God.
www.mountainretreatorg.net /faq/clean_and_unclean.shtml   (5002 words)

  
 Clean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In weightlifting, explosively pulling a weight from the floor to one's chest without allowing it to touch any other body part (see clean and jerk)
"Clean", a song by Depeche Mode from their 1990 album Violator
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean   (99 words)

  
 Unclean & Clean Meats: Jesus and New Testament Pope Protestant
Unclean animals are never mentioned as food anywhere in the New Testament--they are either mentioned as beasts of burden (John 12:15) or mentioned in a negative fashion (Matt 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-12; Rev 16:13; 18:2).
And while Irenaeus is describing how humans can be clean or unclean, he never suggests that one should eat anything that is unclean--especially since he condemns gluttony and adopting the lives of swine and dogs (both of whom eat unclean meats).
And it is the Roman Church that forbid the eating of clean meats on Fridays for centuries.
www.cogwriter.com /unclnt.htm   (2584 words)

  
 Animals And Kashrut (Messianic Judaism)
Basically, the clean animals that could be sacrificed were also the animals which could be eaten; later confirmed by reiteration in the Torah given at Sinai.
Be very wary: To say that G-d's kosher laws regarding 'clean' and 'unclean' fall under the heading of "doctrines of devils" or "seducing spirits" is attributing G-d's Holy Torah to hasatan.
Man may eat "less" than permitted by G-d (not eating clean meats) but man is forbidden to eat "more" than is permitted by G-d (adding unclean meats to their diet).
www.lightofmashiach.org /kosher.html   (1487 words)

  
 Why the Difference Between "Clean" and "Unclean" Animals on Noah's Ark?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The simple fact is, God never told us why He made a difference between "clean" and "unclean" animals when Noah loaded the ark. One reason may be because people in the Old Testament were commanded to offer the best of their clean animals as sacrifices to God.
Perhaps by making certain animals "clean" and others "unclean," and then requiring that only the clean animals could be used as sacrifices, God was able to teach people that He always deserved their very best.
Although we cannot be certain, it seems that God first began making a difference between "clean" and "unclean" animals so that people would know that He wanted their best.
www.discoverymagazine.com /digger/d02dd/d0206dd.html   (274 words)

  
 CLEAN ANIMALS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD...These animals may be eaten!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
CLEAN ANIMALS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD...These animals may be eaten!
: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
theisraelofgodrc.com /Clean_Animals.html   (369 words)

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