if any beast of which ye may eate, die] By inward sicknesse, or outward violence, as of strangling; (so that the bloud were not let out of the veines) or of tearing by beasts; such a beast became ceremonially uncleane, and might neither be eaten, nor touched; yet with exception of the fat, in such a case; whereof see Annot. on Chap. 7. ver. 24.