Leviticus 11:27

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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,

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  • Lev 11:20 : 20 Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
  • Lev 11:23 : 23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

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  • Lev 11:23-26
    4 verses
    92%

    23But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

    24Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

    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.

  • Lev 11:28-29
    2 verses
    91%

    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

    29Creatures 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 11:34-43
    10 verses
    87%

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

    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.

    36However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

    37Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,

    38but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

    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.

    43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

  • Lev 11:31-32
    2 verses
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    31These 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.

    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Lev 11:2-8
    7 verses
    84%

    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.

    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.

  • Deut 14:6-8
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    81%

    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.

  • 2Or 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;

  • 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 22:5-6
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    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    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.

  • 10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    78%

    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.’”

  • 22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • 11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

  • 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,

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

  • 27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • 20Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

  • 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.

  • 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.’”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.

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

  • 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.

  • 10but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

  • 16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.