The Israelites will not stay in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt. In Assyria they will eat food that they should not eat.
Acts 11:8 - Easy To Read Version But I said, ‘I would never do that, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unholy or not pure.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But I said, No, by no means, Lord; for nothing common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean has ever entered my mouth. American Standard Version (1901) But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. Common English Bible I responded, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ Catholic Public Domain Version But I said: 'Never, lord! For what is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. |
The Israelites will not stay in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt. In Assyria they will eat food that they should not eat.
You must make a clear distinction (difference) between things that are holy and things that are not holy. You must make a clear distinction between things that are clean [118] and things that are unclean. [119]
Those teachings are so people can know unclean [145] animals from clean [146] animals. So people will know which animals they can eat and which animals they must not eat.
The Pharisees and teachers of the law saw that some of Jesus’ followers ate food with hands that were not clean. (“Not clean” means that they did not wash their hands \{in the way the Pharisees said people must\}.)
I heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill any of these animals and eat it!’
But the voice from the sky answered again, ‘God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them unholy!’
I am in the Lord Jesus. And I know that there is no food that is wrong to eat. But if a person believes that something is wrong, then that thing is wrong for him.
The husband who is not a believer is made holy through his \{believing\} wife. And the wife who is not a believer is made holy through her \{believing\} husband. If this were not true, then your children would not be clean. But now your children are holy.