Leviticus 11:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Hebrews 9:10

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.

Colossians 2:16

So don’t let anyone make rules for you about eating and drinking or about Jewish customs (festivals, New Moon celebrations, or Sabbath days).

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.

Isaiah 52:11

So leave Babylon! Leave that place! Priests, you carry the things that belong to the Lord. So make yourselves pure. Don’t touch anything that is not pure.

Leviticus 5:2

“You might touch something unclean. It might be the dead body of any kind of animal. You might not know that you touched these things, but you will still become unclean and must pay a fine.

Ephesians 5:11

Have no part in the things that people in darkness do, which produce nothing good. Instead, tell everyone how wrong those things are.

Ephesians 5:7

So don’t have anything to do with them.

2 Corinthians 6:17

“So come away from those people and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don’t touch anything that is not clean, and I will accept you.” Isaiah 52:11

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not bring us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less pleasing to God, and eating does not make us closer to him.

Romans 14:21

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that hurts the faith of your brother or sister.

Acts 15:29

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it. Don’t be involved in sexual sin. If you stay away from these, you will do well. We say goodbye now.

Acts 10:28

Peter said to the people, “You understand that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit anyone who is not a Jew. But God has shown me that I should not consider anyone unfit or say they are not pure.

Mark 7:18

He said, “Do you still have trouble understanding? Surely you know that nothing that enters the mouth from the outside can make people unacceptable to God.

Mark 7:15

There is nothing people can put in their mouth that will make them wrong. People are made wrong by what comes from inside them.”

Mark 7:2

They saw that some of his followers ate food with hands that were not clean, meaning that they did not wash their hands in a special way.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”

Matthew 15:11

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.”

Leviticus 11:7

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

Leviticus 11:9

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