Leviticus 11:29

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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,

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 11:41-42 : 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.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.
  • Ps 17:13-14 : 13 Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man! 14 LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.
  • 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.
  • Hag 2:6 : 6 Moreover, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:“In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 Then he said to them,“Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 More Warnings about the Pharisees The Pharisees(who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
  • John 6:26 : 26 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.
  • John 6:66 : 66 Peter’s Confession After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
  • 2 Tim 3:2-5 : 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said,“I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.”
  • Lev 11:20-21 : 20 Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:30-32
    3 verses
    87%

    30the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.

    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 11:20-28
    9 verses
    79%

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • Lev 11:34-44
    11 verses
    76%

    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,

    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,

  • Lev 11:4-8
    5 verses
    73%

    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 14:19
    73%

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

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 14:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    71%

    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.’”

  • Isa 66:17
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 5:2
    69%

    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;

  • Lev 11:10-12
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

    12Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

  • Deut 14:10
    68%

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

  • Gen 7:8
    68%

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

  • Lev 20:25
    67%

    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.

  • Lev 18:24
    67%

    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.

  • Lev 11:2
    67%

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

  • Lev 27:11
    67%

    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,

  • Lev 15:10
    66%

    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 17:15
    66%

    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.