Leviticus 22:8
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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- Lev 17:15 : 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.
- Exod 22:31 : 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.
- Lev 7:24 : 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.
- Deut 14:21 : 21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Ezek 44:31 : 31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
- Lev 11:39-40 : 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.
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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.
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31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
- Lev 7:24-252 verses81%
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.
25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.
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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.
- Lev 22:6-72 verses81%
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.
7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
- Lev 11:39-413 verses81%
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.
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9They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
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14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
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8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
- Lev 11:46-472 verses77%
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 14:20-212 verses77%
20You may eat any clean winged creature.
21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Lev 19:7-82 verses76%
7If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,
8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.
- Deut 14:6-83 verses76%
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 7:19-224 verses76%
19The 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.
20The 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.
21When 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.’”
22Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Lev 11:2-32 verses76%
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.
- Deut 14:3-42 verses76%
3You must not eat any forbidden thing.
4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
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30On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD.
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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 12:22-232 verses75%
22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
- Lev 11:24-285 verses75%
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.
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30You 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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22You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.
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4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,
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4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
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43Do 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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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.
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16and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
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27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”
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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.
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3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,
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13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,