Monday, 10 November 2014

Genesis 7, animals in ark

Genesis 7:2 NIV
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

Genesis 7:3 NIV
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

7 pairs of clean animal
1 pair of unclean animal
7 pairs of birds

Why God still keep the unclean animals?

What is unclean animal?  The one that I knew is pig. What Else ?

From Wiki

2 criteria to categories the animal as unclean  - Ruminate and cloves hoof

Ruminate  basically mean chew again. Animals such as cow, goat etc they chew the  grass again and again from stomach before fully digested. 

Clover hoof mean hoof split into 2. 

Pig did not fulfill the above 2 criteria  hence consider as unclean. 

I am yet to see the real different between goat and pig hoof? 

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