Deuteronomy 14:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Lev 11:26-27 : 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.
  • Isa 65:4 : 4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
  • Isa 66:17 : 17 As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.
  • Luke 15:15-16 : 15 And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food. 16 And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:2-12
    11 verses
    92%

    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.

  • Lev 11:24-28
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    86%

    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.

  • Deut 14:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Lev 11:34-43
    10 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Deut 14:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

    10 But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

    11 All clean birds may be used for food.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

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

  • 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.

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19 And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:

    20 But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

    21 And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

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

  • 25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

  • 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.

  • 2 If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

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    19 Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

    20 But all clean birds you may take.

  • 15 And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

  • 6 Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;

  • 31 All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

  • 4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.

  • 31 You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • 14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

  • 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: