Ezekiel 44:31

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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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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • Rom 14:20 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
  • 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
  • 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.

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  • Lev 22:8
    82%

    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.

  • Exod 22:31
    78%

    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 7:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 6:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.

    30But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire.

  • Lev 11:39-41
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

  • Lev 17:15
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 14:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 11:8
    74%

    8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:3
    74%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 22:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

    11but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.

  • Lev 6:23
    74%

    23Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”

  • Lev 7:6
    74%

    6Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    73%

    46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

    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 27:11
    73%

    11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

  • Ezek 4:14
    73%

    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.”

  • Gen 9:4
    73%

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Ezek 44:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

    30The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

  • Deut 14:11
    72%

    11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    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.’”

  • Lev 22:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    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.’”

  • Exod 29:34
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 28:26
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    71%

    15Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

  • Exod 12:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

    46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • Ezek 44:21
    71%

    21No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

  • Lev 22:15
    71%

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

  • Lev 22:4
    71%

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

  • Lev 6:26
    71%

    26The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

  • Lev 11:26
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 14:8
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 11:35
    71%

    35Anything 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.

  • Deut 12:23
    71%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

  • Lev 21:1
    71%

    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

  • Num 18:32
    71%

    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • Lev 11:11
    71%

    11Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

  • Deut 18:3
    70%

    3This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep– they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.