Leviticus 11:8

Easy To Read Version

Don’t eat the meat from those animals! Don’t even touch their dead bodies! They are unclean for you!

Cross References

Isaiah 52:11

You people should leave Babylon!\par Leave that place!\par \{Priests,\} you carry the things\par that are used in worship.\par So make yourselves pure.\par Don’t touch anything that is not pure.\par

Hosea 9:3

The Israelites will not stay in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt. In Assyria they will eat food that they should not eat.

Leviticus 11:7

Other animals have hooves [130] that are split into two parts, but they don’t chew the cud. Don’t eat those animals. Pigs are like that, so they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:9

“If an animal lives in the sea or in a river and if the animal has fins and scales, then you can eat that animal.

Leviticus 5:2

Or a person might touch something unclean. [41] It might be the dead body of a tame animal, or it might be the dead body of an unclean animal. That person might not know that he touched those things, but he will still be guilty of doing wrong.

Matthew 15:11

It is not the things a person puts in his mouth that make him wrong. {\cf2\super [206]} It is the things a person says with his mouth that make him wrong.”

Matthew 15:20

These things make a person wrong. But not washing his hands before he eats does not make a person wrong.”

Mark 7:15

There is nothing a person puts into his body that makes him wrong. {\cf2\super [86]} A person is made wrong by the things that come from him.”

Mark 7:18

Jesus said, “You still have trouble understanding? Surely you know that nothing that enters a person from the outside can make him wrong.

Mark 7:2

The Pharisees and teachers of the law saw that some of Jesus’ followers ate food with hands that were not clean. (“Not clean” means that they did not wash their hands \{in the way the Pharisees said people must\}.)

Acts 10:28

Peter said to the people, “You people understand that it is against our Jewish law for a Jew to associate with or visit any person who is not a Jew. But God has shown me that I should not call any person ‘unholy’ or ‘not clean.’

Acts 15:29

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. {\cf2\super [320]} \par Don’t eat meat from animals that have been\par strangled (choked) or\par any meat that still has the blood in it.\par Don’t do any kind of sexual sin.\par

Romans 14:21

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine if that makes your brother or sister fall into sin. It is better not to do anything that will make your brother or sister sin.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not make us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less \{pleasing to God\}. And eating does not make us better.

2 Corinthians 6:17

“So come away from those people\par and separate yourselves from them,\par says the Lord.\par Touch nothing that is not clean,\par and I will accept you.”\par \i (Isaiah 52:11)\i0 \par

Ephesians 5:11

Don’t do the things that people in darkness do. Doing those things brings nothing good. But \{do the good things to\} show that those things in darkness are wrong.

Ephesians 5:7

So don’t do those things with them.

Colossians 2:16

So don’t let any person make rules for you about eating and drinking or about Jewish customs (festivals, New Moon celebrations, {\cf2\super [12]} or Sabbath days {\cf2\super [13]}).

Hebrews 9:10

Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—\{not about things inside people’s hearts\}. God gave those rules \{for his people to follow\} until the time of God’s new way.