Lev 11:2, 20:25, Deu 14:3, Eze 4:14 | ESV | STEP | Speak to the people of Israel , saying , These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth .

Leviticus 11:2

2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ^aThese are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

Leviticus 20:25

25 ^bYou shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:3

3 ^c“You shall not eat any abomination.

Ezekiel 4:14

14 Then I said, ^d“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. ^{▼▼Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean} ^fFrom my youth up till now I have never eaten ^gwhat died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^htainted meat come into my mouth.”