Leviticus 11:42

World English Bible (2000)

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

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  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
  • Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:39-41
    3 verses
    93%

    39"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    40He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

    41"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

  • Lev 11:20-31
    12 verses
    88%

    20"'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

    21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.

    22Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

    23But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

    24"'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

    25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

    26"'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

    27Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    28He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

    29"'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

    30the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

    31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:43-44
    2 verses
    88%

    43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

    44For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

  • Lev 11:2-12
    11 verses
    84%

    2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

    3Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

    4"'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

    5The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

    6The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.

    7The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

    8Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

    9"'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

    10All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

    11and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.

    12Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

  • Deut 14:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

  • Deut 14:19-20
    2 verses
    79%

    19All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

    20Of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 11:46-47
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    78%

    46"'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,

    47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

  • Deut 14:6-11
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    78%

    6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

    7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

    8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

    9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;

    10and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

    11Of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 20:25
    76%

    25"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

  • Deut 4:18
    75%

    18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

  • Acts 10:12
    74%

    12in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

  • Gen 7:8
    74%

    8Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

    35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

  • Lev 22:5
    73%

    5or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

  • Lev 18:27
    72%

    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

  • Lev 18:24
    72%

    24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Gen 9:4
    72%

    4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.