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Leviticus 11:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Tell the Israelites: These are the animals you can eat:

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These gifts and sacrifices are only about food and drink and special washings. They are only rules about the body. God gave them for his people to follow until the time of his new way.

It is not what people put in their mouth that makes them wrong. It is what comes out of their mouth that makes them wrong.”

Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Depend only on God’s grace for spiritual strength, not on rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help anyone.

Daniel did not want to eat the king’s rich food and wine because it would make him unclean. So he asked Ashpenaz for permission not to make himself unclean in this way.

Then I said, “Oh, but Lord GOD, I have never eaten any unclean food. I have never eaten meat from an animal that died from a disease or from an animal that was killed by a wild animal. I have never eaten unclean meat—not from the time that I was a little baby until now. None of that bad meat ever entered my mouth.”

“Also, if an animal which you use for food dies, whoever touches its dead body will be unclean until evening.

If water from the unclean clay dish touches any food, that food will become unclean. Any drink in the unclean dish will become unclean.

“These small animals are unclean for you: moles, mice, all kinds of great lizards,

But you may eat insects if they have legs with joints above their feet so that they can jump.

“You must also treat some birds as things that are wrong to eat. Stay away from them. It is a sickening thought for you to eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,

“You may eat everything that lives in the sea or in a river that has fins and scales.

“Some animals chew the cud, but they don’t have split hooves. Don’t eat these animals. Camels, rock badgers, and rabbits are like that, so they are unclean for you.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

If an animal has hooves that are split into two parts, and if that animal also chews the cud, then you may eat the meat from that animal.




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