Leviticus 7:24Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read VersionYou may use the fat from any animal that has died by itself or was torn by other animals, but you must never eat it. See the chapter |
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.”
“Don’t eat any animal that has died by itself. You may give the dead animal to the foreigner in your town, and he can eat it. Or you may sell the dead animal to a foreigner. But you yourselves must not eat the dead animal, because you belong to the Lord your God. You are his special people. “Don’t cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.