Leviticus 11:8
You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
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- Isa 52:11 : 11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the LORD’s holy items!
- 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.
- Lev 5:2 : 2 Or 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;
- Hos 9:3 : 3 Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.
- 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.”
- Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
- Mark 7:2 : 2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
- Mark 7:15 : 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.”
- Mark 7:18 : 18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
- Acts 10:10-15 : 10 He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him. 11 He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners. 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!” 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
- Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
- Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.
- Rom 14:14-17 : 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. 16 Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
- 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.
- 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
- Eph 5:7 : 7 Therefore do not be sharers with them,
- Eph 5:11 : 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Col 2:16 : 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–
- Col 2:21-23 : 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” 22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings. 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
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- Deut 14:6-116 verses91%
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.
- Lev 11:9-124 verses88%
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.
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.
- Lev 11:23-286 verses86%
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.
- Lev 11:2-76 verses86%
2 “Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
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.
6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
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.
- Lev 11:34-4310 verses83%
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.
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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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.
- Lev 7:19-213 verses79%
19 The 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.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
21 When 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.’”
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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 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.
- Deut 14:19-202 verses78%
19 And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
20 You may eat any clean winged creature.
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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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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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15 Regulations 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.
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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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20 Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
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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.
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2 Or 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;
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24 Moreover, 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.
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4 But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.