Leviticus 11:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Lev 5:2 : 2 "'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
  • Matt 15:11 : 11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
  • Mark 7:2 : 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
  • Mark 7:15 : 15 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
  • Mark 7:18 : 18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
  • Acts 10:10-15 : 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. 13 A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" 14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
  • Rom 14:14-17 : 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don't let your good be slandered, 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
  • Eph 5:7 : 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:6-11
    6 verses
    91%

    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 11:9-12
    4 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Lev 11:23-28
    6 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Lev 11:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Lev 11:34-43
    10 verses
    83%

    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.

    36Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

    37If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

    38But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

    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.

    42Whatever 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.

    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.

  • Lev 11:31
    79%

    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 7:19-21
    3 verses
    79%

    19"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

    20but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

    21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Lev 11:47
    79%

    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.'"

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

    6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

  • Deut 14:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

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

    20Of all clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 22:8
    78%

    8That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

  • Deut 14:3
    78%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 17:15
    77%

    15"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

  • 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.

  • Lev 11:20
    76%

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

  • Exod 22:31
    75%

    31"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Lev 5:2
    75%

    2"'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

  • Lev 7:24
    74%

    24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

  • Gen 9:4
    74%

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