The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
Parallel translations
- KJV The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
- BSB The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
- NKJV The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.
- NASB The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces by animals.
- NLT The priests may not eat meat from any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that dies after being attacked by another animal.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Lev 22:8That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
- Exod 22:31“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
- Deut 14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Lev 17:15“‘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.
- Ezek 4:14Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable meat into my mouth!”
- 1 Cor 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
- Rom 14:20Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
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