ok, call me ignorant, but i don't actually know what a "clean" animal and "unlcean" animal is

Question

in reference to noah's ark - they took so many clean but less unclean. what does that mean?

i could guess, but i won't

Answer 1

This has to do with God's definition of clean and unclean, and Deuteronomy 14:3-20 has the definition:

Do not eat any detestable thing.

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

You may eat any clean bird. But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them. But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

Answer 2

The strange thing is, that those Old Testament dietary laws were handed down long after Noah's little boat trip - so Noah had no way of knowing which ones were clean and unclean.

If God told Noah then, why didn't Noah pass that information on. If it was so important, you'd think they might have kept note of that little clean/unclean thing.

Of course, if God had passed on those rules, why didn't he also pass on the Mosaic laws that forbid incest? Allegedly, those laws didn't apply in Adam & Eve's time - so they could populate the Earth with their progeny - but did Noah's kids have the same restrictions? Presumably everyone on Earth is descended not just from Adam & Eve, but are also all descended from the survivors of Noah's ark - a rather small gene pool even more recent than the Garden of Eden - and since this was after the Fall, these would not have been genetically perfect specimens.

The whole Noah's ark story is so full of holes, and raises more troubling questions than it answers, I wonder why anyone would cling to the literal interpretation of the story.

Answer 3

According to the Old Testament laws, there were certain animals that the people were not allowed to eat. These were the unclean animals which included:

" Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you." Leviticus 11:4-7

Other animals were allowed as food:

"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. " Leviticus 11:2-3

Bear in mind that the New Testament did away with these restrictions. All animals are now ok to eat.

"Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:" 1 Timothy 4:3-4

Answer 4

God gave mankind dominion over all things on earth (vegitation, sea monsters, birds, wild animals). When Adam & Eve left the garden of Eden they started eating animals that God said was okay to eat. Able & Cain (childreen of Eve) gave sacrifices up to God including vegtables & meats. As the generations evolved, God had them keep different meats separate.

Example is keeping the meat from pigs, poultry, & fish in close proximity will cause "Bird Flu". This is what's actually what started Bird Flu in Asia. So, it was recorded in the Bible how to handle meats so that diseases were not produced. This is covered after the story of Noah's Ark in Exodious, and Numbers.

Answer 5

The clean that Noah took onto the Ark were for sacrifice as well as for food.Have a look at Deuteronomy 14, it will help you.

Answer 6

i've got labored in animal shelters, and that i've got achieved some rescues. I define it in yet in a diverse way. most of the animals in shelters are proprietor released, no longer undesirable creatures coming in off of the streets. i could define those animals as "recycled", no longer as "rescued". fairly in many circumstances, actual rescued animals under no circumstances make it to the adoption technique: they're in such undesirable condition that they are purely euthanized fairly of rehabilitated. no count number if it fairly is a "no kill" safeguard, and the animal is in such undesirable shape, it fairly is often sent someplace else for euthanization. And if human beings think of that rescues and shelters could continuously pay exhorbitant quantities of funds to rehabilitate and rehome each animal in order that human beings can pass around bragging that they have got a "rescued" animal and feeling good approximately themselves, it fairly is a f*d up international.

Answer 7

Here's the difference as Noah understand it: "After that Jehovah said to Noah: “Go, you and all your household, into the ark, because you are the one I have seen to be righteous before me among this generation. Of every clean beast you must take to yourself by sevens, the sire and its mate; and of every beast that is not clean just two, the sire and its mate; also of the flying creatures of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire earth. For in just seven days more I am making it rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe every existing thing that I have made off the surface of the ground.” And Noah proceeded to do according to all that Jehovah had commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the deluge of waters occurred on the earth. So Noah went in, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark ahead of the waters of the deluge. Of every clean beast and of every beast that is not clean and of the flying creatures and everything that moves on the ground, they went in by twos to Noah inside the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. " (Gen 7:2-9) So Noah figure wich would be the Clean beast as he offered them later as sacrifice: "And Noah began to build an altar to Jehovah and to take some of all the clean beasts and of all the clean flying creatures and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar." (Gen 8:20) Those were the called "clean" animals that were good for offerings such as birds or sheeps and cattle.
Hope it helps you to understand. Nice Day!

Answer 8

The reason you don't know is because there is no such thing in modern days. The Lord said "What God has cleansed you must not call common." God has cleansed all animals and there are none unclean.

Answer 9

"unclean" are types they couldn't eat. "Unclean" animals were animals with cloven hooves (like a pig). The Jewish dietary laws that come along in Leviticus spell out exactly what they can and can't eat (you know it as "kosher" today)

Cause god's all up into what you eat. :)

Answer 10

"Clean" and "unclean" were used to describe animals that were fit to eat and not fit to eat. The unclean animals were mostly used for ecological balance, not food, so they were deemed unfit to eat.