Isaiah 65:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Lev 11:7 : 7 And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.
  • 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.
  • 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;
  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
  • Exod 34:26 : 26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk
  • Ezek 4:14 : 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.
  • Matt 8:28 : 28 And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way.
  • Mark 5:2-5 : 2 And when he had got out of the boat, straight away there came to him from the place of the dead a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain; 4 Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet. 5 And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
  • Luke 8:27 : 27 And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.
  • Num 19:11 : 11 Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:
  • Num 19:16-20 : 16 And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days. 17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel: 18 And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched. 19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening. 20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.
  • Deut 14:3 : 3 No disgusting thing may be your food.
  • Deut 14:8 : 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.
  • Deut 14:21 : 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 18:11 : 11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

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  • Isa 66:17
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    17As 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.

  • Isa 65:5
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    5Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.

  • Isa 65:3
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    3A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

  • Mic 3:2-3
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    2You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

    3Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Lev 11:10-12
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    10All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;

    11They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.

    12Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.

  • Deut 14:8
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    8And 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.

  • Lev 11:7-8
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    7And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

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

  • Isa 66:3
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    3He 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 66:24
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    24And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

  • Ezek 44:7
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    7To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

  • Deut 14:3-4
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    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

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

  • Lev 11:40-42
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    40And 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.

    41Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.

    42Whatever 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 4:12-14
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    12And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

    13And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

    14Then 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.

  • Lev 7:25
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    25For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 11:35
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    35Any 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.

  • Jer 8:1-2
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    1At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:

    2And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • Ps 107:18
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    18They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Lev 11:28
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    28Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:24-26
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    24By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:

    25Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening.

    26Every 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.

  • Ezek 24:5
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    5Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

  • Ezek 46:24
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    24And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.

  • Ps 106:28
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    28And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

  • Isa 5:17
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    17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • Lev 26:30
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    30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

  • Amos 6:4
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    4Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

  • Ps 79:2
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    2They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

  • Lev 11:20
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    20Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;

  • Lev 7:20-21
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    20But 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.

    21And 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.

  • Lev 18:27
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    27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Lev 18:29
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    29For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

  • Isa 28:8
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    8For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

  • Lam 4:15
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    15Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • Jer 32:34
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    34But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Ezek 6:5
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    5And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.