Leviticus 11:43
Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
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- Lev 20:25 : 25 Therefore 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 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.
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- Lev 11:34-429 verses88%
34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
35 Anything 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.
36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
37 Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
39 Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
40 One 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.
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.
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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,
- Lev 11:20-3112 verses84%
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.
22 These 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.
23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
24 Carcass Uncleanness“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
26 Inedible 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.
27 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,
28 and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
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,
30 the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.
31 These 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.
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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
- Lev 11:10-123 verses80%
10 But 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.
11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
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25 Therefore 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.
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19 And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
- Lev 11:46-472 verses79%
46 This 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,
47 to 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 11:7-82 verses79%
7 The 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.
8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
- Lev 22:5-62 verses78%
5 or 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–
6 the 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.
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24 Warning 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 11:3-53 verses76%
3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
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.
5 The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
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26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
- Lev 18:26-305 verses76%
26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,
27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.
30 You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”
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10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
- Deut 14:7-82 verses74%
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.
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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.
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8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
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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.