Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Les sacrificateurs ne mangeront d'aucun oiseau et d'aucun animal mort ou déchiré.
KJV
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
KJV
Hebrew original
Patristic reading
1Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
to prevent the observance of legal ceremonies, but in order to prevent gluttony. Thus Jerome says on Ezech. 44:31 ("The priest shall not eat of anything that is dead"): "He condemns those priests who from gluttony did not keep these precepts." But since certain foods are more del…
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