[CHAPTER XIV.]
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS, AND DEFILEMENT BY DEAD BODIES.
Lev. xi. 1-47.
With chap. xi. begins a new section of this book, extending to the end of chap. xv., of which the subject is the law concerning various bodily defilements, and the rites appointed for their removal.
The law is given under four heads, as follows:—
I. Clean and Unclean Animals, and Defilement by Dead Bodies: chap. xi.
II. The Uncleanness of Child-birth: chap. xii.
III. The Uncleanness of Leprosy: chaps. xiii., xiv.