Leviticus 11:8
You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Majority Standard Bible
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 if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Matthew 15:20These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
Mark 7:15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.
Acts 10:10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
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 →