Leviticus 11:2 - Easy To Read Version “Tell the people of Israel: These are the animals you can eat: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Say to the Israelites: These are the animals which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. [Mark 7:15-19.] American Standard Version (1901) Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Common English Bible Say to the Israelites: These are the creatures that you are allowed to eat from the land animals: Catholic Public Domain Version Say to the sons of Israel: These are the animals that you ought to eat out of all the living things of the earth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth. |
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.”
Daniel did not want to eat the king’s rich food and wine. Daniel did not want to make himself unclean {\cf2\super [4]} with that food and wine. So he asked Ashpenaz for permission not to make himself unclean in this way.
“You must also treat these birds as animals God says are bad to eat. Don’t eat any of these birds: eagles, vultures, buzzards,
But you can eat those insects if they have legs with joints above their feet so they can jump.
“These crawling animals are unclean [139] for you: moles, mice, all kinds of great lizards,
If an animal has hooves [125] that are split into two parts, and if that animal also chews the cud, [126] then you can eat the meat from that animal.
If water {from the unclean clay dish} comes on any food, then that food will become unclean. Any drink in the unclean dish will become unclean.
“Also, if an animal {that you use for food} dies, then the person who touches its dead body will be unclean [143] until evening.
“If an animal lives in the sea or in a river and if the animal has fins and scales, then you can eat that animal.
It is not the things a person puts in his mouth that make him wrong. {\cf2\super [206]} It is the things a person says with his mouth that make him wrong.”
Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace (kindness), not by obeying rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help people.
Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—\{not about things inside people’s hearts\}. God gave those rules \{for his people to follow\} until the time of God’s new way.