Exodus 22:31
You will be people that are set apart for me. So you must not eat any meat that was torn by animals in the field. Instead, you must throw it to the dogs.
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Leviticus 11:44For I am Yahweh your God. You are to keep yourselves holy, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves about on the ground.
Leviticus 19:2“Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.
Leviticus 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or killed by wild animals, by which he would defile himself. I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 4:14But I said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!”
Acts 10:14But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that was defiled and unclean.”
1 Peter 1:15But as the one who called you is holy, you, too, be holy in your whole behavior.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:26-31
25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou… Read the whole commentary →