Leviticus 11:2

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“Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

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  • Lev 11:11 : 11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
  • Lev 11:4 : 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.
  • Lev 11:9 : 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.
  • Mark 7:15-19 : 15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.” 17 Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
  • 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 14:2-3 : 2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.
  • Rom 14:14-15 : 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. 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Tim 4:4-6 : 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer. 6 By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
  • Lev 11:13 : 13 Clean and Unclean Birds“‘These you are to detest from among the birds– they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
  • Lev 11:21 : 21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.
  • Lev 11:29 : 29 Creatures that Swarm on the Land“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
  • Lev 11:34 : 34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
  • Lev 11:39 : 39 Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
  • Lev 11:41-44 : 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, 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,
  • Deut 14:3-9 : 3 You must not eat any forbidden thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep. 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). 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. 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. 12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species, 14 every raven after its species, 15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species, 16 the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl, 17 the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, 18 the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat. 19 And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten. 20 You may eat any clean winged creature. 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.”
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:3-11
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    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.

    5The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

    6The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

    7The 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.

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

    9Clean 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.

    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.

  • Lev 11:1
    86%

    1Clean and Unclean Land Creatures The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,

  • Deut 14:3-9
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    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

    5the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.

    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,

  • Lev 11:46-47
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    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 11:39-42
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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.

    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.

  • Lev 7:22-25
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    22Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    23“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

    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.

  • Lev 1:2
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.

  • Lev 11:26-27
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    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,

  • Deut 14:20
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    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

  • Lev 11:21-22
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    21However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

    22These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

  • Lev 22:8
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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.

  • Deut 12:22
    76%

    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

  • Deut 14:11
    76%

    11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Exod 22:31
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 9:3-4
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    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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

  • Lev 17:2
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    2“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them:‘This is the word that the LORD has commanded:

  • Deut 12:15
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    15Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

  • Lev 20:25
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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.

  • Num 15:2
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

  • Acts 10:12
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    12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

  • Exod 13:2
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    2“Set apart to me every firstborn male– the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.”

  • Gen 1:24
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    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

  • Gen 7:8
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    8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

  • Jer 7:21
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    21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

  • Lev 17:14
    72%

    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.