Leviticus 11:44

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
  • Lev 20:7 : 7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.
  • Exod 19:6 : 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
  • Ps 99:5 : 5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
  • Isa 6:3-5 : 3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory. 4 And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke. 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; 16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
  • Exod 23:25 : 25 And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
  • Isa 51:15 : 15 For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Amos 3:3 : 3 Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?
  • Lev 11:43 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:41-43
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    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.

  • Lev 11:45-47
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    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.

    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 20:7-8
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    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

    8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Lev 20:25-26
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    82%

    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.

    26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • Lev 19:2
    81%

    2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    77%

    15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

    16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

  • Lev 18:30
    77%

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:31-33
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    76%

    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

    32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

    33 Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 18:24
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    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:

  • Lev 21:8
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    8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

  • Num 35:34
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    34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

  • Lev 11:31
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    31 All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 22:5-6
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    5 Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;

    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;

  • Lev 11:23-24
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    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:

  • Lev 19:30
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    30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 26:2
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    2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 22:31
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    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.

  • Exod 30:29
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    29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    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,

  • Lev 18:27-28
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    72%

    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;)

    28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Lev 22:2-3
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    72%

    2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

    3 Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 10:10
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    10 And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • Lev 22:8-9
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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.

    9 So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

  • Lev 11:26-28
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    71%

    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 14:3
    71%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 23:14
    71%

    14 For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    31 In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

  • Lev 20:23
    71%

    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Lev 18:2-3
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    2 Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Deut 14:19
    71%

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

  • Exod 19:6
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    6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

  • Lev 11:21
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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;