Exodus 22:31

New King James Version

“And you shall be holy men to Me: you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Cross References

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.”

Ezekiel 4:14

So I said, “Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth.”

Ezekiel 44:31

The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:25

You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Leviticus 22:8

Whatever dies naturally or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, to defile himself with it: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 7:24

And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it.

Acts 10:14

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.