Leviticus 11:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
  • 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.
  • Lev 5:2 : 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:
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
  • Mark 7:2 : 2 And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
  • Mark 7:15 : 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.
  • Mark 7:18 : 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,
  • Acts 10:10-15 : 10 And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him; 11 And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth, 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. 15 And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
  • Rom 14:14-17 : 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. 16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good: 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
  • 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,
  • Eph 5:7 : 7 Have no part with such men;
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Col 2:16 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men? 23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:6-11
    6 verses
    91%

    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.

  • Lev 11:9-12
    4 verses
    88%

    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 11:23-28
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    86%

    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:

    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.

  • Lev 11:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Lev 11:34-43
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    83%

    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.

  • 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 7:19-21
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    79%

    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.

  • Lev 11:47
    79%

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

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

  • Deut 14:19-20
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    78%

    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.

  • Lev 22:8
    78%

    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 14:3
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    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Lev 17:15
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 20:25
    76%

    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.

  • Lev 11:20
    76%

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

  • 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.

  • Lev 5:2
    75%

    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:

  • Lev 7:24
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 9:4
    74%

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