Ezekiel 4:14

The Message

I said, “God, my Master! Never! I’ve never contaminated myself with food like that. Since my youth I’ve never eaten anything forbidden by law, nothing found dead or violated by wild animals. I’ve never taken a single bite of forbidden food.”

Cross References

Exodus 22:31

“Be holy for my sake. “Don’t eat mutilated flesh you find in the fields; throw it to the dogs.” * * *

Isaiah 66:17

“All who enter the sacred groves for initiation in those unholy rituals that climaxed in that foul and obscene meal of pigs and mice will eat together and then die together.” God’s Decree.

Jeremiah 1:6

But I said, “Hold it, Master God! Look at me. I don’t know anything. I’m only a boy!”

Ezekiel 20:49

And I said, “O God, everyone is saying of me, ‘He just makes up stories.’”

Ezekiel 4:15

“All right,” he said. “I’ll let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human dung.”

Ezekiel 44:31

“Priests are not to eat any meat from bird or animal unfit for ordinary human consumption, such as carcasses found dead on the road or in the field.”

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel determined that he would not defile himself by eating the king’s food or drinking his wine, so he asked the head of the palace staff to exempt him from the royal diet. The head of the palace staff, by God’s grace, liked Daniel, but he warned him, “I’m afraid of what my master the king will do. He is the one who assigned this diet and if he sees that you are not as healthy as the rest, he’ll have my head!”

Leviticus 17:15

“Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats from an animal that is found dead or mauled must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he remains unclean until evening and is then clean. If he doesn’t wash or bathe his body, he’ll be held responsible for his actions.”

Acts 10:14

Peter said, “Oh, no, Lord. I’ve never so much as tasted food that was not kosher.”

Deuteronomy 14:21

Because you are a people holy to God, your God, don’t eat anything that you find dead. You can, though, give it to a foreigner in your neighborhood for a meal or sell it to a foreigner. Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 14:3

Don’t eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep—any animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud. But you may not eat camels, rabbits, and rock badgers because they chew the cud but they don’t have a cloven hoof—that makes them ritually unclean. And pigs: Don’t eat pigs—they have a cloven hoof but don’t chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. Don’t even touch a pig’s carcass.