Ezekiel 4:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

Exodus 22:30

You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Exodus 22:31

“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.

Isaiah 65:4

who sit inside tombs and spend the night in secret places; who eat the flesh of pigs, with broth of abominable things in their vessels;

Isaiah 66:17

Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the center, eating the flesh of pigs, vermin, and rodents, shall come to an end together, says the Lord,

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

Ezekiel 44:31

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

Ezekiel 9:8

While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell prostrate on my face and cried out, “Ah Lord God! Will you destroy all who remain of Israel as you pour out your wrath upon Jerusalem?”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.

Leviticus 17:15

All persons, native-born or alien, who eat what dies of itself or what has been torn by wild animals shall wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening; then they shall be clean.

Leviticus 19:7

If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be acceptable.

Leviticus 22:8

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

Acts 10:14

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

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.

Deuteronomy 14:3

“You shall not eat any abhorrent thing.