for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples of those lands. And the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.”
Exodus 22:31 - The Scriptures 2009 “And you are set-apart men to Me, and you do not eat any meat which is torn to pieces in the field, you throw it to the dogs. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall be holy men [consecrated] to Me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs. American Standard Version (1901) And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. Common English Bible You are holy people to me. Don’t eat any meat killed by wild animals out in the field. Throw it to the dogs instead. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs. |
for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples of those lands. And the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.”
Then I said, “Ah, Master יהוה! See, I have never defiled myself from my youth till now. I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has unclean meat ever come into my mouth.”
“The priests are not to eat any bird or beast found dead or torn to pieces.
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘Be set-apart, for I יהוה your Elohim am set-apart.
‘And you shall make a distinction between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean. And do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or whatever creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
‘He does not eat that which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it. I am יהוה.
‘And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of what is torn, is used for any purpose, but you do not eat it at all.
But Kĕpha said, “Not at all, Master! Because I have never eaten whatever is common or unclean.”
but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
“Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.