Leviticus 11:9

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:9-9 : 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.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 But someone will say,“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.
  • 1 John 5:2-5 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down, 4 because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. Testimony About the SonThis is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith. 5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:6-11
    6 verses
    96%

    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 11:10-13
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    91%

    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.

    13Clean and Unclean Birds“‘These you are to detest from among the birds– they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

  • Lev 11:7-8
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    81%

    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.

  • Lev 11:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1Clean and Unclean Land Creatures The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,

    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.

  • Deut 14:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

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

    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

  • Lev 11:34-35
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    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 11:46-47
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    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.’”

  • Lev 11:39-43
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    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,

  • Gen 9:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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

  • Lev 11:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Ezek 47:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Every living creature which swarms where the river flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh and everything will live where the river flows.

    10Fishermen will stand beside it; from En Gedi to En Eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

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

  • Deut 12:15
    71%

    15Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

  • Deut 4:18
    71%

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

  • Deut 12:22
    70%

    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

  • Lev 11:26-27
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    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,

  • Ezek 29:4
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    4I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

  • Ps 8:8
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    8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

  • Lev 22:8
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 7:24
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    24Moreover, 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.

  • Gen 6:21
    69%

    21And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”

  • Hab 1:15
    69%

    15The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

  • Ps 104:25
    69%

    25Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.