Leviticus 17:15-16
15 aAnd every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, bwhether he is a native or a sojourner, cshall wash his clothes and dbathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean. 16But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, ehe shall bear his iniquity.”Leviticus 20:25
25 fYou 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.Leviticus 22:8
8 gHe shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’Deuteronomy 14:21
21 h“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For iyou are a people holy to the Lord your God.j“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Ezekiel 4:14
14Then I said, k“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. ▼▼Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean
mFrom my youth up till now I have never eaten nwhat died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has otainted meat come into my mouth.” Ezekiel 44:31
31 pThe priests shall not eat of qanything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.Acts 10:14
14But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; rfor I have never eaten anything that is scommon or tunclean.”Acts 15:20
20but should write to them uto abstain from vthe things polluted by idols, and from wsexual immorality, and from xwhat has been strangled, and from yblood.
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