them so they can leap through the air and thus propel themselves through the air. Jumping, flying insects are edible; all the rest are not.Fourth, there is the category of dead animals which are unclean. Essentially, any dead animal other than an animal which has been killed through the sacrificial process in the front of the door of the tent of meeting is unclean. There are unclean animals that will defile in their death, andthere are clean animals that will defile man in their death, if their death is not a sacrificial death. The carcasses are that which can contaminate, therefore if a person eats a cow which has just been killed by a wolf, that person would be ceremonially unclean even though he could eat the meat if it were sacrificed to God.Fifth, swarming animals. These are a bit of a puzzle, but this category includes things like mice, lizards, and most all of those things that I can readily pass up, so I can easily and readily identify them. Mice, apparently, are called swarming because they go about together in groups, and they seem to have an erratic, unpredictable manner of movement.Why did God call the pig unclean and a cow clean? God never explains this, and by looking at research, we find that nobody has figured it out either. It may be that there isn't any reason at all other than that God said "clean" or "unclean." God never tells Israel why something is clean or unclean. He never gives a reason for the definition of clean or unclean. For centuries, men have tried to give reasons for these definitions of clean and unclean. ...
