Ezekiel 4:14

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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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  • Ezek 9:8 : 8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out,“Ah, Sovereign LORD! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then I said,“O Sovereign LORD! They are saying of me,‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
  • Deut 14:3 : 3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
  • 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 66:17 : 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.
  • Exod 22:31 : 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.
  • Lev 17:15 : 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.
  • Lev 19:7 : 7 If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,
  • Lev 11:39-40 : 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.
  • 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.

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    13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

  • Lev 22:6-8
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    6the 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.

    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.

  • Acts 11:8-9
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    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

  • Deut 26:14
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    14I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.

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    15So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

  • Lev 17:14-15
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    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

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  • Lev 11:39-40
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    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.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Acts 10:14
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    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

  • Job 6:7
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    7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

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    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.

    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.’”

  • Ezek 44:31
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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 11:8
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    8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Exod 22:31
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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.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    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.

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    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

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    19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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  • Lev 11:34
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    34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

  • Lev 11:25-27
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    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

    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,

  • Lev 19:7-8
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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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  • Jer 7:21
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    6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

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