Leviticus 11:42

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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.

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  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
  • Isa 65:25 : 25 A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake’s food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” says the LORD.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; they will be terrified of you.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said,“Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:39-41
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    93%

    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 11:20-31
    12 verses
    88%

    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.

    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,

    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.

  • Lev 11:43-44
    2 verses
    88%

    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 11:2-12
    11 verses
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    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.

    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.

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

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

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

  • Deut 14:19-20
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    19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.

    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

  • Lev 11:46-47
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    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.’”

  • Deut 14:6-11
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    78%

    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,

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

    11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 20:25
    76%

    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.

  • Deut 4:18
    75%

    18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.

  • Acts 10:12
    74%

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

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

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 22:5
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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–

  • Lev 18:27
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    27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

  • Lev 18:24
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 9:4
    72%

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