You shall be people consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat any meat that is mangled by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
Ezekiel 44:31 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or animal, that died of itself or was torn by animals. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The priests shall not eat of anything that has died of itself or is torn, whether it be bird or beast. American Standard Version (1901) The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast. Common English Bible The priests must not eat any bird or animal that dies naturally or is torn apart by prey. Catholic Public Domain Version The priests shall not consume anything which has died on its own, or which was seized by a beast, whether from the fowl or the cattle." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle. |
You shall be people consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat any meat that is mangled by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”
Those who eat of its carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening; and those who carry the carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening.
All persons, citizens or aliens, who eat what dies of itself or what has been torn by wild animals, shall wash their clothes, and bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening; then they shall be clean.
That which died or was torn by wild animals he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it: I am the Lord.
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for you to make others fall by what you eat;
Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.
You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.