Leviticus 11:8

Israel must neither eat the meat nor touch the carcasses of these unclean animals. Uncleanness affects both diet and contact.

Cross-references · 20

• Col 2:16Let 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,
• Heb 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Hos 9:3They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
• Lev 5:2“‘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.
• Isa 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
• Rom 14:14–17I 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.
• Matt 15:20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
• Acts 10:28He 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.
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Mark 7:2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
• Eph 5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
• Mark 7:18He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
• Acts 10:10–15He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
• Mark 7:15There 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.
• Acts 15:29that 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.”
• 1 Cor 8:8But 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.
• Rom 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
• Eph 5:7Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
• Col 2:21–23“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
• 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.”

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