Leviticus 11:8
You are not to eat their meat or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
In Context
7The pig, which though it has a divided hoof doesn't chew the cud, so it is unclean for you.
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2If you touch anything unclean such as the dead body of any unclean wild animal or farm animal or vermin, even if you're unaware of it, you become unclean and guilty.
Hosea 9:3You will not stay in the Lord's land, instead Ephraim will return to Egypt, and will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Matthew 15:20and those are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands doesn't defile you.”
Mark 7:15It's not what's on the outside and goes into you that makes you unclean. It's what comes out that makes you unclean.”
Acts 10:10and he was getting hungry, wanting to eat. But while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance, and
Acts 15:29You should avoid: anything sacrificed to idols; blood; meat from strangled animals; and sexual immorality. You will do well to observe these requirements. God bless you.”
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:2-9
Distinction of Meats. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. 4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is… Read the whole commentary →