Deuteronomy 14:8
Also 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.
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- Lev 11:26-27 : 26 Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean. 27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
- 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.
- Isa 66:3 : 3 The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.
- Isa 66:17 : 17 “As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice– they will all be destroyed together,” says the LORD.
- Luke 15:15-16 : 15 So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
- 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
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- Lev 11:2-1211 verses92%
2 “Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
4 However, 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.
5 The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided(the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.
8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9 Clean and Unclean Water Creatures“‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.
10 But 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.
11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
- Lev 11:24-285 verses86%
24 Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
26 Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.
27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
28 and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
- Deut 14:6-72 verses83%
6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7 However, 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).
- Lev 11:34-4310 verses79%
34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.
36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
37 Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39 Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
42 You 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.
43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
- Deut 14:9-113 verses77%
9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
11 All ritually clean birds you may eat.
- Deut 14:3-42 verses77%
3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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8 He 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.
- Lev 7:19-213 verses75%
19 The 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.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
21 When 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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47 to 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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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.
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24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.
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2 Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;
- Deut 14:19-202 verses74%
19 And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
20 You may eat any clean winged creature.
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15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
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6 the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.
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31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.
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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.
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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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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.”
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24 Warning 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.