Leviticus 11:20

King James Version 1611 (Original)

All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

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  • Lev 11:23 : 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
  • Lev 11:27 : 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
  • Deut 14:19 : 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
  • 2 Kgs 17:28-41 : 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:21-24
    4 verses
    92%

    21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

    22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

    23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

    24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:41-44
    4 verses
    87%

    41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

    42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

    43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

    44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  • 87%

    18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

    19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

    20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

  • Lev 11:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

    19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

  • Lev 11:10-14
    5 verses
    81%

    10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

    11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

    12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

    13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

    14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

  • 78%

    10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

    11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

    12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

    13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

  • 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 11:26-31
    6 verses
    76%

    26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.

    28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

    29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

    30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

    31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 11:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

    8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 4:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

    18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

    47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

  • 10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

  • 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

  • 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

  • Lev 11:2-5
    4 verses
    73%

    2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

    3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

    4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

    5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

  • 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

  • Deut 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

    7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

  • 16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

  • 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

    34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

    35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

  • 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,