Leviticus 11:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

All winged insects that creep, going upon all fours, shall be an abomination to you.

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  • Lev 11:23 : 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination to you.
  • Lev 11:27 : 27 And whatever goes upon its paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all fours, those are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Deut 14:19 : 19 And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
  • 2 Kgs 17:28-41 : 28 So one of the priests who had been carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived. 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods, in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. 34 To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. 35 The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You 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 from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you worship, and to him shall you offer sacrifice. 37 The statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall be careful to observe forever; and you shall not fear other gods. 38 The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget; nor shall you fear other gods. 39 But you shall fear the LORD your God; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 However, they did not listen, but acted according to their previous customs. 41 These nations feared the LORD, yet served their carved images. Their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fathers did, to this day.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure; they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babies.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You 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 stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica; Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:21-24
    4 verses
    92%

    21 Yet these may you eat of every flying creeping thing that goes upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;

    22 Of these you may eat; the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

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

    24 And for these you shall be unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:41-44
    4 verses
    87%

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

    42 Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

    43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

    44 For I am the LORD your God: therefore you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: nor shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

  • Deut 14:18-20
    3 verses
    87%

    18 And the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

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

    20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 11:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the vulture,

    19 And the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • Lev 11:10-14
    5 verses
    81%

    10 And all that do not have 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 to you:

    11 They shall be even an abomination to you; you shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall have their carcasses in abomination.

    12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you.

    13 And these are they which you shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,

    14 And the kite, and the falcon after its kind;

  • Deut 14:10-13
    4 verses
    78%

    10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.

    11 Of all clean birds you shall eat.

    12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,

    13 And the kite, and the falcon, and the vulture after its kind,

  • Deut 14:3
    76%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 11:26-31
    6 verses
    76%

    26 The carcasses of every beast which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, are unclean to you: everyone that touches them shall be unclean.

    27 And whatever goes upon its paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all fours, those are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    28 And he that carries the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.

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

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

    31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 And the swine, though it divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, yet it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

    8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall 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 bird that flies in the air,

    18 The likeness of anything that creeps 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 animals, and of the birds, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth:

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

  • Ps 148:10
    74%

    10 Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds;

  • Lev 20:25
    73%

    25 You shall therefore make a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

  • Acts 10:12
    73%

    12 In which were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.

  • Lev 11:2-5
    4 verses
    73%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

    3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.

    4 Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    5 And the coney, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

  • Deut 28:26
    72%

    26 And your carcass shall be food unto all fowl of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall frighten them away.

  • Deut 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 And every animal that parts the hoof, and has a split hoof, and chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat.

    7 Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that have the divided hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore, they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 11:16
    71%

    16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

  • Deut 18:12
    71%

    12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

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

    35 And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or stove, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean to you.

  • Gen 7:8
    71%

    8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,