Leviticus 11:2

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

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  • Lev 11:11 : 11 They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
  • Lev 11:4 : 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.
  • Lev 11:9 : 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.
  • Mark 7:15-19 : 15 There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean. 16 [] 17 And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying. 18 And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean, 19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
  • Acts 10:12-14 : 12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds. 13 And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food. 14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.
  • Rom 14:2-3 : 2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food. 3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
  • Rom 14:14-15 : 14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean. 15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
  • 1 Tim 4:4-6 : 4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: 5 For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer. 6 If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:
  • Lev 11:13 : 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;
  • Lev 11:21 : 21 But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;
  • Lev 11:29 : 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;
  • Lev 11:34 : 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.
  • Lev 11:39 : 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.
  • Lev 11:41-44 : 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.
  • Deut 14:3-9 : 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; 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. 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. 12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray; 13 The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort; 14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort; 15 And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort; 16 The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen; 17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant; 18 The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat. 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:3-11
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    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.

  • Lev 11:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Deut 14:3-9
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    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;

    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 11:46-47
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    81%

    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.

  • Lev 11:39-42
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    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.

  • Lev 7:22-25
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    22 And the Lord said to Moses,

    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.

    25 For 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 1:2
    77%

    2 Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.

  • Lev 11:26-27
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    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.

  • Deut 14:20
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    20 But all clean birds you may take.

  • Lev 11:21-22
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    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.

  • Lev 22:8
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    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 12:22
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    22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

  • Deut 14:11
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    11 All clean birds may be used for food.

  • Lev 25:7
    76%

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

  • Exod 22:31
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 9:3-4
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    75%

    3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

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

  • Lev 17:2
    75%

    2 Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given.

  • Deut 12:15
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    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.

  • Lev 20:25
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    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.

  • Num 15:2
    74%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,

  • Acts 10:12
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    12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.

  • Exod 13:2
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    2 Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

  • Gen 1:24
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    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 7:8
    73%

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

  • Jer 7:21
    72%

    21 These 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.

  • Lev 17:14
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    14 For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.