Leviticus 11:2-47
11:2 “Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals
that are on the land.
11:3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two
) and that also chews the cud.
11:4 However, you must not eat these
from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you
because it chews the cud
even though its hoof is not divided.
11:5 The rock badger
is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
11:6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
11:7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two
), even though it does not chew the cud.
11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses;
they are unclean to you.
Clean and Unclean Water Creatures
11:9 “‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.
11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.
11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.
11:12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.
Clean and Unclean Birds
11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
11:14 the kite, the buzzard of any kind,
11:15 every kind of crow,
11:16 the eagle owl, the short-eared owl, the long-eared owl, the hawk of any kind,
11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the screech owl,
11:18 the white owl, the scops owl, the osprey,
11:19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Clean and Unclean Insects
11:20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.
11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.
11:22 These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.
11:23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
Carcass Uncleanness
11:24 “‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
11:25 and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
Inedible Land Quadrupeds
11:26 “‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.
11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
11:28 and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
Creatures that Swarm on the Land
11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
11:30 the Mediterranean gecko, the spotted lizard, the wall gecko, the skink, and the chameleon.
11:31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.
11:32 Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.
11:33 As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.
11:34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
11:35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.
11:36 However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
11:37 Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,
11:38 but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
Edible Land Quadrupeds
11:39 “‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
11:40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
11:41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.
11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
11:44 for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
11:45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
11:46 This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,
11:47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
Leviticus 17:10-15
Prohibition against Eating Blood
17:10 “‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,
17:11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
17:12 Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood.
17:13 “‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
17:14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off.
Regulations for Eating Carcasses
17:15 “‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
Deuteronomy 14:3-21
14:3 You must not eat any forbidden
thing.
14:4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
14:5 the ibex,
the gazelle,
the deer,
the wild goat, the antelope,
the wild oryx,
and the mountain sheep.
14:6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.
(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves,
it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
14:10 but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.
14:11 All ritually clean birds you may eat.
14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle,
the vulture,
the black vulture,
14:13 the kite, the black kite, the dayyah
after its species,
14:14 every raven after its species,
14:15 the ostrich,
the owl,
the seagull, the falcon
after its species,
14:16 the little owl, the long-eared owl, the white owl,
14:17 the jackdaw,
the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
14:18 the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,
14:19 and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.
14:20 You may eat any clean bird.
14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages
and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the
Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Ezekiel 4:14
4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
Matthew 15:11
15:11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what
comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
Acts 11:3-18
11:3 saying, “You went to
uncircumcised men and shared a meal with
them.”
11:4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point,
saying,
11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision,
an object something like a large sheet descending,
being let down from heaven
by its four corners, and it came to me.
11:6 As I stared
I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles,
and wild birds.
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; slaughter
and eat!’
11:8 But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean
has ever entered my mouth!’
11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider
ritually unclean!’
11:10 This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.
11:11 At that very moment,
three men sent to me from Caesarea
approached
the house where we were staying.
11:12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers
also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
11:13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
11:14 who will speak a message
to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’
11:15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on
them just as he did
on us at the beginning.
11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord,
as he used to say,
‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
11:17 Therefore if God
gave them the same gift
as he also gave us after believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I to hinder
God?”
11:18 When they heard this,
they ceased their objections
and praised
God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance
that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”
Acts 15:20
15:20 but that we should write them a letter
telling them to abstain
from things defiled
by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled
and from blood.
Romans 14:2
14:2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
Romans 14:6
14:6 The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The
one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
Romans 14:14-17
14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
14:15 For if your brother or sister
is distressed because of what you eat,
you are no longer walking in love.
Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
14:16 Therefore do not let what you consider good
be spoken of as evil.
14:17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:20-21
14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean,
it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
14:21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Romans 14:1
Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance
14:1 Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.
Colossians 1:7-13
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1:10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 4:3-5
4:3 At the same time pray
for us too, that
God may open a door for the message
so that we may proclaim
the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
4:4 Pray that I may make it known as I should.
4:5 Conduct yourselves
with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
Hebrews 9:10
9:10 They served only for matters of food and drink
and various washings; they are external regulations
imposed until the new order came.
Hebrews 13:9
13:9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings.
For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals,
which have never benefited those who participated in them.