Leviticus 7:24

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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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Referenced Verses

  • 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 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.
  • Lev 22:8 : 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.
  • 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 4:14 : 14 And 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.”
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:17-23
    7 verses
    87%

    17but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day.

    18If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity.

    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:

    23“Tell the Israelites,‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

  • Lev 7:25-27
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    86%

    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.

    26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Lev 22:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

    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.

  • Deut 14:6-8
    3 verses
    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.

  • Lev 11:2-3
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    78%

    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.

  • Exod 22:31
    78%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:31
    77%

    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 3:16-17
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    77%

    16Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.

    17This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”

  • Lev 7:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

    4the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he must remove along with the kidneys).

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    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 11:39-40
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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.

  • Lev 17:15
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 5:17
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    17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • Exod 29:13
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    13You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

  • Lev 11:47
    75%

    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 14:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

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

  • Lev 4:8-10
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    75%

    8“‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails,

    9the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys)

    10– just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice– and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

  • Deut 12:15
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 11:26
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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.

  • Lev 3:14
    74%

    14Then he must present from it his offering as a gift to the LORD: the fat which covers the entrails and all the fat on the entrails,

  • Jer 7:21
    74%

    21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

  • Lev 11:8
    74%

    8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 9:19
    74%

    19As for the fat parts from the ox and from the ram(the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the protruding lobe of the liver),

  • Gen 9:4
    74%

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

  • Lev 4:19
    74%

    19“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Num 18:32
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    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • Lev 17:3
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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,

  • Lev 3:3
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    3Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails,

  • Deut 12:22
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    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

  • Lev 8:16
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    16Then he took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar,