Leviticus 11:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:9-9 : 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.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
  • 1 John 5:2-5 : 2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard. 4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith. 5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:6-11
    6 verses
    96%

    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 11:10-13
    4 verses
    91%

    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.

    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 11:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Lev 11:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    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.

  • Deut 14:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    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 11:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    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 11:39-43
    5 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 9:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

    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 11:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

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

    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.

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

  • Ezek 47:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.

    10 And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    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;

  • Deut 12:15
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 4:18
    71%

    18 Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.

  • Deut 12:22
    70%

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

  • Lev 11:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 29:4
    70%

    4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

  • Ps 8:8
    70%

    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

  • Lev 22:8
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 7:24
    69%

    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 6:21
    69%

    21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

  • Hab 1:15
    69%

    15 He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

  • Ps 104:25
    69%

    25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.