Exodus 22:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You shall be people consecrated to me, so you shall not eat any meat that is mangled 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 for their sons. Thus the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and in this faithlessness the officials and leaders have led the way.”

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Ezekiel 44:31

The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or animal, that died of itself or was torn by animals.

Leviticus 19:2

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

Leviticus 20:25

You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

Leviticus 22:8

That which died or was torn by wild animals he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 7:24

The fat of an animal that died or was torn by wild animals may be put to any other use, but you must not eat it.

Acts 10:14

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.