Exodus 22:31
“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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- 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 19:2 : 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- Deut 14:21 : 21 You 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.
- Lev 22:8 : 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.
- Ezek 44:31 : 31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
- Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
- Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
- 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
- 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.
- Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
- Lev 11:44-45 : 44 for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground, 45 for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
- Lev 17:15-16 : 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. 16 But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”
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- Lev 22:7-82 verses81%
7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
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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31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
- Lev 7:24-263 verses78%
24Moreover, 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.
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.
26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.
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30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.
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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.
- Lev 20:25-262 verses77%
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.
26You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
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3You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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15Regulations 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.
- Lev 11:2-32 verses75%
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.
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8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
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6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
- Lev 11:39-402 verses75%
39Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
40One 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.
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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.’”
- Lev 11:26-283 verses74%
26Inedible 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.
27All 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,
28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
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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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30On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD.
- Lev 7:19-224 verses74%
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.
20The 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.
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.’”
22Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
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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.
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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.
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3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,
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4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
- Lev 22:24-263 verses73%
24You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.
25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”
26The LORD spoke to Moses:
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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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9Redemption of Vowed Animals“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the LORD, anything which he gives to the LORD from this kind of animal will be holy.
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6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
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26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.
- Lev 11:43-442 verses73%
43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
44for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
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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.
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22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
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19“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.
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34If any of the meat from the consecration offerings or any of the bread is left over until morning, then you are to burn up what is left over. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.
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13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
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8You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.
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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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22“‘You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD.