Dict: easton - Clean

easton:

Clean @ The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in kjv@Leviticus:11-15; Numbers:19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood kjv@Genesis:7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Leviticus:11 and kjv@Deuteronomy:14:1-21. The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as

(1) blood;

(2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul;

(3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery;

(4) the fat of the kidneys; and

(5) the fat tail of certain sheep kjv@Exodus:29:13 kjv@Exodus:29:22 kjv@Leviticus:3:4-9 kjv@Leviticus:9:19 kjv@Leviticus:17:10 ; 19:26). The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in kjv@Leviticus:20:24-26; kjv@Acts:10:9-16 kjv@Acts:11:1-10; kjv@Hebrews:9:9-14.