Leviticus 11:41
Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
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- Lev 11:29 : 29 Creatures that Swarm on the Land“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
- Lev 11:20 : 20 Clean and Unclean Insects“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
- Lev 11:23 : 23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
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- Lev 11:42-443 verses93%
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,
44for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
- Lev 11:20-3112 verses87%
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.
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.
29Creatures that Swarm on the Land“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
30the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.
31These 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 11:8-136 verses84%
8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
9Clean 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.
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,
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19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
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3You must not eat any forbidden thing.
- Lev 11:46-472 verses79%
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 11:38-403 verses78%
38but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
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.
- Deut 14:10-112 verses76%
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 11:34-352 verses75%
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 11:2-54 verses75%
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.
5The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
- Deut 14:6-72 verses75%
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).
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5or 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–
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8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
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18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.
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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.
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7If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,
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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.
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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.
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26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
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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.
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4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.
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27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.