Deuteronomy 14:4

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These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

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  • Lev 11:2-9 : 2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth. 3 You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again. 4 But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you. 5 And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you. 6 And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you. 7 And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back. 8 Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you. 9 These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food. 10 All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you; 11 They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you. 12 Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you. 13 And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; 14 And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort; 15 Every raven, and birds of that sort; 16 And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort; 17 And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl; 18 And the water-hen and the pelican and the vulture; 19 The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. 20 Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you; 21 But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food; 22 Such as all the different sorts of locust. 23 But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you. 24 By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening: 25 Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening. 26 Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean. 27 Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening. 28 Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. 29 And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort; 30 And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon. 31 All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening. 32 The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean. 33 And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken. 34 Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean. 35 Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you. 36 But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean. 37 If any part of the dead body of one of these gets on to any seed for planting, it is clean; 38 But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you. 39 And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening. 40 And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening. 41 Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food. 42 Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting. 43 You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me. 44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth. 45 For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.
  • 1 Kgs 4:23 : 23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:5-9
    5 verses
    84%

    5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

    6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

    7 But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

    8 And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

    9 And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

  • Lev 11:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.

    3 You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.

    4 But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

    5 And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:3
    79%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20 But all clean birds you may take.

    21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 12:22
    77%

    22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

  • Lev 7:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23 Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.

    24 And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

  • Deut 12:15
    76%

    15 Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

  • Deut 15:22
    76%

    22 It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.

  • Lev 22:19
    76%

    19 So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.

  • Ezek 34:17
    76%

    17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

  • Lev 11:42
    75%

    42 Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

  • Ezek 39:18
    74%

    18 The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

  • Ps 8:7
    74%

    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;

  • Deut 14:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 All clean birds may be used for food.

    12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

  • Lev 1:10
    74%

    10 And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.

  • Lev 17:3
    74%

    3 If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

  • Gen 9:4
    74%

    4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Prov 27:26
    73%

    26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Exod 12:5
    73%

    5 Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

  • Deut 32:14
    73%

    14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • Lev 11:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26 Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean.

    27 Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.

  • Num 15:11
    73%

    11 This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat.

  • Lev 9:3
    72%

    3 And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;

  • Lev 22:8
    72%

    8 That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 17:1
    72%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    72%

    46 This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

    47 Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

  • Isa 5:17
    72%

    17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • Lev 3:12
    72%

    12 And if his offering is a goat, then let it be placed before the Lord,

  • Num 28:22
    72%

    22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin.

  • Lev 11:21
    72%

    21 But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;

  • Ps 50:13
    72%

    13 Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?

  • Lev 11:8
    72%

    8 Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

  • Num 29:23
    72%

    23 And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 18:17
    72%

    17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Num 29:34
    72%

    34 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Ezek 34:3
    72%

    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.