Deuteronomy 14:3

New Living Translation

“You must not eat any detestable animals that are ceremonially unclean.

Cross References

Genesis 7:2

Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others.

Isaiah 65:4

At night they go out among the graves, worshiping the dead. They eat the flesh of pigs and make stews with other forbidden foods.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.”

Leviticus 11:2

“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “Of all the land animals, these are the ones you may use for food.

Leviticus 11:43

Do not defile yourselves by touching them. You must not make yourselves ceremonially unclean because of them.

Leviticus 20:25

“You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or creature that scurries along the ground. I have identified them as being unclean for you.

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced on the authority of the Lord Jesus that no food, in and of itself, is wrong to eat. But if someone believes it is wrong, then for that person it is wrong.

1 Corinthians 10:28

(But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you.

Titus 1:15

Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted.