Leviticus 11:2

God tells Israel which land animals they may eat. The Creator has the right to define how his people live, even at the table.

Cross-references · 20

• Lev 11:11and you detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.
• Matt 15:11That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
• Heb 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Acts 10:12–14in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
• Lev 11:29“‘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,
• Rom 14:2–3One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• 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!”
• Rom 14:14–15I 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.
• Mark 7:15–19There 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.
• Lev 11:4“‘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.
• Deut 14:3–21You shall not eat any abominable thing.
• Lev 11:41–44“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
• 1 Tim 4:4–6For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
• Lev 11:39“‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
• Lev 11:21Yet 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.
• Lev 11:9“‘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.
• Lev 11:34All 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.
• Dan 1:8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
• Lev 11:13“‘These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

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