Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. [49] And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
Deuteronomy 14:3 - Easy To Read Version “Don’t eat anything that the Lord hates. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not eat anything that is abominable [to the Lord and so forbidden by Him]. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Common English Bible Don’t eat any detestable thing. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not eat the things that are unclean. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Eat not the things that are unclean. |
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. [49] And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
Those people sit among the graves. They wait to get messages from dead people. They even live among dead bodies. They eat pig meat. Their forks and knives are dirty with rotten meat.
Then I (Ezekiel) said, “Oh, but Lord my Master, I have never eaten any unclean food. I have never eaten meat from an animal that died from a disease or from an animal that was killed by a wild animal. I have never eaten unclean meat—not from the time I was a little baby until today. None of that bad meat ever entered my mouth.”
Don’t let those animals make you filthy. [144] You must not become unclean!
So you must treat clean [366] animals differently from unclean [367] animals. You must treat clean birds differently from unclean birds. Don’t eat any of those unclean birds, and animals, and things that crawl on the ground. I have made those things unclean.
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.
But if a person tells you, “That food was offered to idols, {\cf2\super [77]} ” then don’t eat it. Why? Because some people think it is wrong, and it might cause a problem for the person who told you that.
To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.