Leviticus 11:8
You do not eat of their flesh, and you do not come against their carcass—they [are] unclean to you.
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2Or when a person comes against anything unclean, or against a carcass of an unclean beast, or against a carcass of unclean livestock, or against a carcass of an unclean teeming creature, and it has been hidden from him, then he [is] unclean and guilty;
Hosea 9:3They do not abide in the land of YHWH, || And Ephraim has turned back [to] Egypt, || And they eat an unclean thing in Asshur.
Matthew 15:20these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
Mark 7:15there is nothing from outside the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.
Acts 10:10and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell on him a trance,
Acts 15:29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; keeping yourselves from which, you will do well; be strong!”
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 →