Leviticus 11:13

New International Reader's Version

“ ‘Here are the birds you must treat as “unclean.” Do not eat them because they are “unclean.” The birds include eagles, vultures and black vultures.

Cross References

Job 28:7

No bird knows that hidden path. No falcon’s eye has seen it.

Job 38:41

Who provides food for ravens when their babies cry out to me? They wander around because they do not have anything to eat.

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! Our enemies are approaching like the clouds. Their chariots are coming like a strong wind. Their horses are faster than eagles. How terrible it will be for us! We’ll be destroyed!

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are children who do not have any sense. They have no understanding at all. They are skilled in doing what is evil. They do not know how to do what is good.”

Jeremiah 48:40

The Lord says, “Look! Nebuchadnezzar is like an eagle diving down. He is spreading his wings over Moab.

Lamentations 4:19

Those who were hunting us down were faster than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains. They hid and waited for us in the desert.

Hosea 8:1

The Lord said to me, “Put a trumpet to your lips! Give a warning to my people! Assyria is like an eagle. It is ready to attack my land. My people have broken the covenant I made with them. They have refused to obey my law.

Leviticus 11:11

Treat them as “unclean.” Do not eat their meat. Treat their dead bodies as “unclean.”

Leviticus 11:12

Regard as “unclean” everything that lives in the water that does not have fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:14

They include red kites and all kinds of black kites.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are faster than leopards. They are meaner than wolves at sunset. Their horsemen charge straight into battle. They ride in from far away. They come down like an eagle diving for its food.

Zechariah 5:9

I looked up and saw two other women. They had wings like the wings of a stork. A wind sent by the Lord carried them along. They lifted the basket up between heaven and earth.

Matthew 24:28

The vultures will gather wherever there is a dead body.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too acted like fools. We didn’t obey God. We were tricked. We were controlled by all kinds of desires and pleasures. We were full of evil. We wanted what belongs to others. People hated us, and we hated one another.