Leviticus 11:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 6:6-7 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
  • Deut 16:3-8 : 3 Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life. 4 For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning. 5 The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you: 6 But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt. 7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents. 8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.
  • Ps 1:1-2 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord. 2 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
  • Prov 2:1-2 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
  • Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
  • 1 Tim 4:15 : 15 Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:3-11
    9 verses
    93%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

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

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

    6Any 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.

    7But 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.

    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.

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

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

    11All clean birds may be used for food.

  • Lev 11:1-2
    2 verses
    89%

    1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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

  • Lev 11:4-12
    9 verses
    87%

    4But, 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.

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

    6And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.

    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.

    9These 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.

    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.

  • Lev 11:25-27
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

    27Any 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.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    79%

    46This 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:

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

  • Lev 11:39-43
    5 verses
    79%

    39And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

    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.

    43You 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 12:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

    21If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

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

  • Lev 7:23-25
    3 verses
    78%

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

    24And 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.

    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.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20But all clean birds you may take.

    21You 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 12:15
    77%

    15Only 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 11:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

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

    22Such as all the different sorts of locust.

    23But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.

  • Lev 25:7
    75%

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

  • Lev 22:8
    75%

    8That 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 15:22
    75%

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

  • Exod 22:31
    75%

    31You 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.

  • Lev 20:25
    74%

    25So 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.

  • Gen 9:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Lev 17:3
    73%

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

  • Ezek 34:19
    72%

    19And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.