Leviticus 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; be clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 Concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Lev 5:2 : 2 Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
  • Mark 7:2 : 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
  • Mark 7:15 : 15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are what defile a man.
  • Mark 7:18 : 18 And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
  • Acts 10:10-15 : 10 And he became very hungry, and wanted to eat: but while they prepared, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 In which were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. 15 And the voice spoke to him again the second time, What God has cleansed, do not call common.
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said to them, You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to keep company with or come to one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Rom 14:14-17 : 14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil. 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 good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Eph 5:7 : 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days;
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle," 22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:6-11
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    91%

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

    7Nevertheless, 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.

    8And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their dead bodies.

    9These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you shall eat.

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

    11Of all clean birds you shall eat.

  • Lev 11:9-12
    4 verses
    88%

    9These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you shall eat.

    10And 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:

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

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

  • Lev 11:23-28
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    86%

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

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

    25And whoever carries any part of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

    26The 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.

    27And 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.

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

  • Lev 11:2-7
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    86%

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

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

    4Nevertheless, 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.

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

    6And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

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

  • Lev 11:34-43
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    34Of 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.

    35And 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.

    36Nevertheless a fountain or pit, in which there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.

    37And if any part of their carcass falls upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

    38But if any water is put upon the seed, and any part of their carcass falls on it, it shall be unclean to you.

    39And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies; he that touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    40And he that eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: he also that carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

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

    42Whatever 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.

    43You 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.

  • Lev 11:31
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    31These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 7:19-21
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    19And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and for the other flesh, all who are clean shall eat it.

    20But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belong to the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

    21Moreover, the soul who touches any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 11:47
    79%

    47To 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.

  • Lev 22:5-6
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    78%

    5Or whoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6The soul who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.

  • Deut 14:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

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

    20But of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 22:8
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    8What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 17:15
    77%

    15And every soul that eats what died of itself, or what was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.

  • Lev 20:25
    76%

    25You 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.

  • Lev 11:20
    76%

    20All winged insects that creep, going upon all fours, shall be an abomination to you.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Lev 5:2
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    2Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

  • Lev 7:24
    74%

    24And the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of an animal that is torn by beasts, may be used for any other purpose: but you shall not eat of it.

  • Gen 9:4
    74%

    4But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.