Ezekiel 44:31

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The priests must not eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or been torn by wild beasts.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 22:8 : 8 He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Ezek 4:14 : 14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'
  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
  • Lev 17:15 : 15 Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lev 22:8
    82%

    8He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 7:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    24The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

    25Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering to the Lord is made must be cut off from their people.

    26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

  • Lev 11:39-41
    3 verses
    75%

    39If any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

    40Anyone who eats from its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

    41Every swarming creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

  • Lev 17:15
    75%

    15Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

  • Deut 14:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19Every swarming winged creature is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

    20You may eat any clean flying creature.

    21You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Lev 11:8
    74%

    8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:3
    74%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Lev 22:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10No outsider is to eat the holy food. A guest of the priest or a hired servant must not eat the holy food.

    11However, if a priest buys someone with his money as property, that person may eat from the priest's food, and those born in his household may also eat his food.

  • Lev 6:23
    74%

    23But any sin offering whose blood is brought to the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the holy place must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.

  • Lev 7:6
    74%

    6Every male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    73%

    46These are the laws regarding animals, birds, every living creature that moves in the water, and every creature that moves along the ground.

    47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 27:11
    73%

    11If it is an unclean animal that cannot be offered to the LORD as a sacrifice, it must be presented before the priest.

  • Ezek 4:14
    73%

    14Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'

  • Gen 9:4
    73%

    4But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

  • Ezek 44:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29They are to eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

    30The best of all the firstfruits and every sacred contribution of yours shall belong to the priests. You are also to give the priests the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your household.

  • Deut 14:11
    72%

    11You may eat any clean bird.

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten. It must be burned with fire. Only those who are clean may eat the meat.

    20If anyone who is unclean eats the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

    21If anyone touches something unclean, whether it is human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

  • Lev 22:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24You must not offer to the LORD any animals that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut, nor are you to do this in your land.

    25You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • Exod 29:34
    72%

    34If any of the meat of ordination or bread is left until morning, you must burn it, for it may not be eaten because it is holy.

  • Deut 28:26
    71%

    26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    71%

    15But even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man offering the sacrifice, ‘Give the priest some meat to roast; he won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.’

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45A temporary resident or hired servant may not eat of it.

    46It must be eaten in a single house; you are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break any of its bones.

  • Ezek 44:21
    71%

    21No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.

  • Lev 22:15
    71%

    15The priests must not allow the sacred offerings of the people of Israel, which they present to the LORD, to be defiled.

  • Lev 22:4
    71%

    4If any man from Aaron's descendants has a skin disease or a discharge, he must not eat from the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,

  • Lev 11:26
    71%

    26Every animal that has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean to you; whoever touches them will become unclean.

  • Deut 14:8
    71%

    8And the pig, though it has divided hooves, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

  • Lev 11:35
    71%

    35Anything on which one of their carcasses falls will become unclean; an oven or cooking stove must be broken. They are unclean, and they will remain unclean to you.

  • Deut 12:23
    71%

    23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

  • Lev 21:1
    71%

    1The LORD said to Moses, 'Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them: A priest shall not defile himself by coming into contact with a dead person among his people.

  • Num 18:32
    71%

    32You will not bear any sin by bringing the best of it, but you must not desecrate the sacred gifts of the Israelites, or you will die.

  • Lev 11:11
    71%

    11You must regard them as detestable; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

  • Deut 18:3
    70%

    3This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice: whether ox or sheep, they are to give the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.