Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ’
Exodus 22:31 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Be my holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; throw it to the dogs. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall be holy men [consecrated] to Me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs. American Standard Version (1901) And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. Common English Bible You are holy people to me. Don’t eat any meat killed by wild animals out in the field. Throw it to the dogs instead. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs. |
Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ’
But I said, ‘Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.’
The priests may not eat any bird or animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.
‘Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, , making himself unclean by it; I am the Lord.
The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts , may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
‘No, Lord! ’ Peter said. ‘For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.’
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
‘You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident foreigner within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.