Animals That You May Eat

God had just declared to Aaron that the role of priests was to distinguish between the holy and the unholy. The clean and the unclean. He now started the instruction of distinguishing by talking about the animals that they were allowed to eat. In order for it to be acceptable to eat, it must chew the cud and have a cloven hoof. We know from the New Testament that this was ceremonial law which was to point to something until the time of reformation. God put specific animals in the world, so we could understand and discern, not between clean and unclean animals, but between those who are right with God and those who are not. That is the role of the priest that was told them by God.