Deuteronomy 14:3
You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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- Ezek 4:14 : 14 And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
- Lev 11:43 : 43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
- Lev 20:25 : 25 Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.
- Isa 65:4 : 4 They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.
- Acts 10:12-14 : 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds. 13 Then a voice said to him,“Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!” 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
- Rom 14:14 : 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
- 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–
- Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
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- Lev 11:41-433 verses82%
41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
42You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.
43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
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1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.
- Lev 11:10-123 verses81%
10But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.
11Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
12Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
- Deut 14:19-213 verses80%
19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
20You may eat any clean winged creature.
21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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7If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,
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26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
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4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
- Deut 14:6-116 verses78%
6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
9These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
11All ritually clean birds you may eat.
- Lev 11:2-43 verses78%
2“Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
3You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
4However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
- Lev 18:29-302 verses77%
29For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.
30You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”
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31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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12Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.
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16For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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23But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
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25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
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20Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
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25Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.
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24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
- Lev 18:26-272 verses76%
26You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,
27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
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47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
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8He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
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22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
- Lev 7:18-192 verses75%
18If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity.
19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
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21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.
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23“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.
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25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.
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14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
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21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”
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4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
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31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
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20You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.
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15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;